Lantern Cross Approximately 7 Metres North West of Church of St Mawgan is a Grade II* listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 December 1991. A C15 Cross.
Lantern Cross Approximately 7 Metres North West of Church of St Mawgan
- WRENN ID
- woven-keep-torch
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1991
- Type
- Cross
- OS grid reference
- SW 872 659
- Coordinates
- 50.45468, -4.99911
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lantern Cross, dating from the 15th century, is located approximately 7 metres north-west of the Church of St Mawgan in Mawgan-in-Pydar. It is made of granite and features a canopied cross head set on a chamfered shaft and a slab. The four sides of the cross head are filled with figures, depicting the Annunciation scene to the north, a Bishop to the west, and the Trinity to the south. It has crocketted ogee arches at the truncated gable heads, with filled dowel holes indicating where lost pinnacles once stood. This cross is noted as a very fine surviving example of a Cornish lantern cross and is regarded by A.G. Langdon as "the best in Cornwall."
Local climate
Lantern Cross Approximately 7 Metres North West of Church of St Mawgan sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% 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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