Cross About 1 Metre West of Lych Gate of Church of St Morwenna is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Cross.
Cross About 1 Metre West of Lych Gate of Church of St Morwenna
- WRENN ID
- blind-bronze-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cross
- OS grid reference
- SS 205 152
- Coordinates
- 50.90896, -4.55389
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a Celtic cross located about 1 metre west of the lych gate of the Church of St Morwenna in Morwenstow. Made of granite, the cross features approximately 50 centimetres of cross shaft and an alisee patee cross, which is carved with circles in relief on each arm and in the center. The truncated shaft is set on three granite steps. The Reverend R S Hawker is said to have brought the cross to Morwenstow in 1851 from the moor, where it may have served as a pilgrim cross, to commemorate his first wife, Charlotte. The shaft is also carved with the initials C E H. The cross is depicted in the Hawker memorial window within the church.
Local climate
Cross About 1 Metre West of Lych Gate of Church of St Morwenna sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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