The Adelaide Cross on the Green in Front of the Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1986. Monument.
The Adelaide Cross on the Green in Front of the Manor House
- WRENN ID
- scattered-keep-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1986
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- The Adelaide Cross on the Green in Front of the Manor House, Little Gaddesden
- OS grid reference
- SP 996 128
- Coordinates
- 51.8056, -0.55583
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Adelaide Cross is a monumental cross located on The Green in front of the Manor House in Little Gaddesden. It was constructed around 1917 for Lord Brownlow. The cross is made of limestone and is raised on a grassed mound, which is accessible by a flight of six stone steps with low chamfered side walls. The structure features a tall, tapering chamfered cross set on a chamfered square plinth, which is placed on an octagonal inscribed step and an octagonal base that resembles a stone seat with a recessed chamfered plinth. The overall height of the cross is about 7 meters. The shaft of the cross is formed from two stones and is inscribed with the words: "IN REMEMBRANCE OF ADELAIDE WIFE OF ADELBERT 3RD EARL BROWNLOW BORN 1844 MARRIED 1868 DIED 1917 DAUGHTER OF HENRY 18TH EARL OF SHREWSBURY & TALBOT." At the base, it reads: "MERCY AND PEACE HAVE KISSED EACH OTHER." This cross is an important landscape feature, visible along a vista from the porch of Ashridge House.
Local climate
The Adelaide Cross on the Green in Front of the Manor House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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