Butter Cross is a Grade I listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 May 1949. A C17 Monument.
Butter Cross
- WRENN ID
- lunar-zinc-sage
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 May 1949
- Type
- Monument
- Period
- C17
- Address
- Butter Cross, Market Place, Bungay
- OS grid reference
- TM 336 897
- Coordinates
- 52.45592, 1.43733
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Butter Cross is a Grade I listed structure located in the Market Place, dating back to 1689. It is octagonal in shape and features a lead-covered dome roof. Atop the cross is a wooden pedestal that supports a lead figure of Justice, which weighs 18 hundredweight and was added in 1754. The columns of the cross are currently supported on stone plinths; however, they were originally placed on wooden bases atop raised steps. In the center of the cross, there was a prisoner's cage used for the temporary detention of offenders, which was removed in 1836. The steps were eliminated in 1867 when an earlier dungeon was discovered beneath, believed to be the remains of an earlier cross that was destroyed in a fire in 1688. The Butter Cross is scheduled as an ancient monument. It is part of a group with Nos 1 to 11 (odd), Nos 11A, 13, and 17 to 21 (odd).
Local climate
Butter Cross 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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