Stone Cross at North East Entrance to Village is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. A Medieval Cross.

Stone Cross at North East Entrance to Village

WRENN ID
ruined-rafter-storm
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Cross
Period
Medieval
Address
Stone Cross at North East Entrance to Village, Looe
OS grid reference
SX 246 528
Coordinates
50.34978, -4.46645
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The stone cross at the north-east entrance to the village of Portlooe is a wayside preaching cross that dates from either the Pre-Conquest or Medieval period. It is a small, slender granite monolith featuring an eroded wheel-head and an incised Latin cross on each face.

Local climate

Stone Cross at North East Entrance to Village sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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