Katherine's Cross Ampthill Park is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 July 1951. Monument.
Katherine's Cross Ampthill Park
- WRENN ID
- pale-transept-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 July 1951
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- TL 024 383
- Coordinates
- 52.03453, -0.50755
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Katherine's Cross in Ampthill Park is a tall stone cross designed in the Gothic style. It was erected in 1773 by James Essex for John, the Second Earl of Upper Ossory, to mark the site of Ampthill Castle. The cross features a shield of England impaling Aragon and includes an inscription by Horace Walpole, which commemorates "The mournful refuge of an injured queen."
Local climate
Katherine's Cross Ampthill Park sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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