Cross in Churchyard Immediately West of Church of St Margaret is a Grade II listed building in the Peterborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 November 1974. Cross.
Cross in Churchyard Immediately West of Church of St Margaret
- WRENN ID
- western-niche-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peterborough
- Constituency
- North West Cambridgeshire MP: Sam Carling (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 November 1974
- Type
- Cross
- Address
- Cross in Churchyard Immediately West of Church of St Margaret, Fletton Avenue, City of Peterborough
- OS grid reference
- TL 197 970
- Coordinates
- 52.55846, -0.23518
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The cross in the churchyard immediately west of the Church of St Margaret is a Saxon cross featuring a damaged wheel head and a tapering shaft adorned with carved roundels. It bears a Norman inscription from around 1180 that reads "Radulph Filius Wilielmi."
Local climate
Cross in Churchyard Immediately West of Church of St Margaret sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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