Cross Shaft Adjoining East Wall of South Porch of Church of St Mary the Virgin is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1993. Cross shaft.
Cross Shaft Adjoining East Wall of South Porch of Church of St Mary the Virgin
- WRENN ID
- strange-bonework-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1993
- Type
- Cross shaft
- OS grid reference
- SX 904 564
- Coordinates
- 50.3973, -3.54305
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The cross shaft, dating from the late medieval period, is located adjacent to the east wall of the south porch of the Church of St Mary the Virgin in Brixham. It is made of granite and features a tapered octagonal shape with convex stops at the base. A notice in the church porch indicates that it is believed to have originally stood at the triangle where the old Brixham Road meets Churston Avenue. For many years, the shaft supported a staircase in a farm. It was presented to the church by Lord Churston in 1939.
Local climate
Cross Shaft Adjoining East Wall of South Porch of Church of St Mary the Virgin receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% 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 0.2°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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