Medieval Cross Base at Hexton Manor (4m to NW of Porch) is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1985. Cross base.
Medieval Cross Base at Hexton Manor (4m to NW of Porch)
- WRENN ID
- veiled-eave-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1985
- Type
- Cross base
- OS grid reference
- TL 108 305
- Coordinates
- 51.96199, -0.38873
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The medieval cross base at Hexton Manor, located 4 meters northwest of the porch, is a Grade II listed structure. It is the base of a former standing cross, likely a Palm Cross that was established in the churchyard following a bequest in a will from 1524. This cross was presumably removed in the later 16th century, and the base was recovered and repositioned when a school was built near the church in 1846 for Madame de Lautour, the Lady of the Manor. The base is made of hard limestone freestone and consists of a single square block that measures 2 feet 3 inches square and 11 inches high, as noted by the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments around 1909. It features a central square socket for the cross shaft. The top of the base is octagonal with a pronounced edge-roll, and the transition to the square bottom is marked by a convex-topped stop at each corner. A cross is mentioned as standing by the town house door in a late 16th-century account of the parish by Francis Taverner.
Local climate
Medieval Cross Base at Hexton Manor (4m to NW of Porch) 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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 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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