The Cross and Hand is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1951. Monolithic shaft.
The Cross and Hand
- WRENN ID
- sharp-vault-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1951
- Type
- Monolithic shaft
- Address
- The Cross and Hand, Batcombe
- OS grid reference
- ST 631 037
- Coordinates
- 50.83236, -2.5242
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cross and Hand is a medieval wayside monolithic shaft located in Batcombe. It has a necking and capital, and is made of stone in an oval form that crudely tapers. The shaft stands approximately 107 centimeters tall, with the capital measuring 28 centimeters square. It is suggested that this shaft may belong to a group of pre-conquest shafts, with the pillar of Eliseg being the most well-known example; if this is the case, the capital would have been cut down. The hand that is said to have been carved on one face of the shaft is no longer visible. The site is designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument in Dorset, numbered 137.
Local climate
The Cross and Hand receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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