Two Cornish Crosses at South End of Garden and Approximately 175 Metres South of Scorrier House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1949. Cross.
Two Cornish Crosses at South End of Garden and Approximately 175 Metres South of Scorrier House
- WRENN ID
- stony-iron-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Camborne and Redruth MP: Perran Moon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 December 1949
- Type
- Cross
- OS grid reference
- SW 725 435
- Coordinates
- 50.24829, -5.1919
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
There are two Cornish crosses located at the south end of a garden, approximately 175 metres south of Scorrier House. These medieval crosses are made of granite and both are of the wheelhead type with integral shafts.
The first cross, identified by Dexter and Dexter as Scorrier No.1, is the smaller of the two. It stands about 1.5 metres high and is mounted on a modern rectangular base. The shaft is rectangular in section with chamfered corners and features sunk oval panels on each face. The south face displays a raised figure of Christ, while the north face has a raised Latin cross.
The second cross, identified by Langdon as Scorrier No.2, is larger, approximately 3 metres high, and is set on a mound about 5 metres northeast of the first cross. This cross is also rectangular in section and has a small head with sunk panels featuring a cross on each side. Thick shrubbery around the shaft made closer inspection difficult, but Langdon's drawings indicate that it has intricate zig-zag and saw-tooth decoration on all sides, along with a ring around each cross. According to Langdon, this cross originally stood in the parish of St Wendron at the junction of the road to Stythian and the Helston-Penryn road, but was purchased by the Williams family in 1849 and relocated to its current site.
Local climate
Two Cornish Crosses at South End of Garden and Approximately 175 Metres South of Scorrier House receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% 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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