Cross Shaft Immediately South of St Mary's Church is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1974. Cross shaft.
Cross Shaft Immediately South of St Mary's Church
- WRENN ID
- vast-step-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Austell and Newquay MP: Noah Law (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 March 1974
- Type
- Cross shaft
- Address
- Cross Shaft Immediately South of St Mary's Church, St. Blaise
- OS grid reference
- SX 058 535
- Coordinates
- 50.3501, -4.73076
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The cross shaft located immediately south of St Mary's Church is likely from the 10th or 11th century. It is a broken shaft made of granite, standing about 8 feet high. The shaft is inscribed with very worn letters that read "Alroron Ulcui filtus, Alroron son of Ulcuus." It features Hiberno-Saxon plait-work and is slightly tapered at both the top and base, with a band around the middle. This cross shaft originally stood on the roadside at Biscovery, which is about a mile away.
Local climate
Cross Shaft Immediately South of St Mary's Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 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 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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