Cross Approximately 7m South-East of Tower of Former Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1985. Cross.
Cross Approximately 7m South-East of Tower of Former Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- heavy-buttress-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 January 1985
- Type
- Cross
- OS grid reference
- ST 875 187
- Coordinates
- 50.96843, -2.17838
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 15th-century stone cross located approximately 7 meters southeast of the tower of the former Church of St Mary in Compton Abbas. The cross features a chamfered square pedestal with the stump of an octagonal shaft and a square, stepped base. It is in a much decayed condition.
Local climate
Cross Approximately 7m South-East of Tower of Former Church of St Mary receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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