Churchyard Cross Approximately 6 Metres South of Dorchester Abbey is a Grade I listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1963. A Medieval Monument.
Churchyard Cross Approximately 6 Metres South of Dorchester Abbey
- WRENN ID
- old-plaster-summer
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 July 1963
- Type
- Monument
- Period
- Medieval
- OS grid reference
- SU 578 941
- Coordinates
- 51.64353, -1.16477
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The churchyard cross, located approximately 6 metres south of Dorchester Abbey, dates from the 14th to 15th century and was restored in 1872 by Sir G. Gilbert Scott. It is made of limestone and features a tapering octagonal shaft that rises from a square base, which has corner stops and a moulded octagonal upper face. The shaft is set on three restored octagonal steps. The 19th-century head of the cross is richly carved with four canopied niches that contain figures, topped with an apex cross.
Local climate
Churchyard Cross Approximately 6 Metres South of Dorchester Abbey sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% 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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