Wayside Cross (At Junction of Main Exeter-London Road and Ottery-Sidmouth Road) is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 January 1974. Cross.
Wayside Cross (At Junction of Main Exeter-London Road and Ottery-Sidmouth Road)
- WRENN ID
- long-slate-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 January 1974
- Type
- Cross
- Address
- Wayside Cross (At Junction of Main Exeter-London Road and Ottery-Sidmouth Road), Ottery St. Mary
- OS grid reference
- SY 095 976
- Coordinates
- 50.77131, -3.28386
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wayside Cross, located at the junction of the main Exeter-London road and the Ottery-Sidmouth road, is a late 19th-century memorial designed by Butterfield. It commemorates John Coleridge, Doctor of Divinity and Missionary Bishop of Melanesia, who was murdered by natives in September 1871. The memorial features a red brick square column set on a stone base, with stone panels in the center displaying texts on each face. At the top, there is a stone cap with a cross above.
Local climate
Wayside Cross (At Junction of Main Exeter-London Road and Ottery-Sidmouth Road) receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% 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 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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