Archway, Steps and Memorial Cross to the First Lord Aldenham 3 Metres South of Church of St Michael and All Angels is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1987. Memorial cross.

Archway, Steps and Memorial Cross to the First Lord Aldenham 3 Metres South of Church of St Michael and All Angels

WRENN ID
hollow-pinnacle-vale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Oxfordshire
Constituency
Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 March 1987
Type
Memorial cross
OS grid reference
SU 547 955
Coordinates
51.65576, -1.21051
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The memorial cross, dated 1907, is located 3 meters south of the Church of St. Michael and All Angels in Clifton Hampden. Designed by Walter Tower, it features a stone octagonal base with quatrefoil panels on each side. Above this base is a tapering octagonal shaft that supports a square top adorned with carved figures in relief on each side. An early 20th-century flight of stone steps leads down to a stone archway, which serves as the approach to the church. This memorial cross honors the first Lord Aldenham, Henry Hucks Gibbs, who lived from 1819 to 1907, and who, along with his mother, financed the restoration of the church and the construction of Clifton Hampden Bridge. The cross is included for its group value.

Local climate

Archway, Steps and Memorial Cross to the First Lord Aldenham 3 Metres South of Church of St Michael and All Angels 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 80% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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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