Cross Approximately 7 Metres West of Tower of Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1986. Monument.
Cross Approximately 7 Metres West of Tower of Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- sombre-hammer-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 November 1986
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- SS 742 044
- Coordinates
- 50.82595, -3.78649
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The churchyard cross, located approximately 7 metres west of the tower of the Church of St Mary, is likely from the 15th century and stands on a base from around 1900. Made from a single piece of granite, the cross is about 1.7 metres high and features a plain, crudely carved design with a stem that is not straight. The edges of the stem, the short arms, and the top of the cross have hollow-chamfered edges, and there are remnants of pyramid stops at the bottom. It is set on a granite socket stone with shouldered corners, dating to circa 1900. The cross was erected by the Right Reverend Bishop Kestall-Cornish during his time as Rector from 1897 to 1909 and was previously discovered being used as a paving stone in Bow Village.
Local climate
Cross Approximately 7 Metres West of Tower of Church of St Mary receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
- 1 Churchyard Cross in the Churchyard About 20m South West of Tower of Church of St Mary
- 2 Cross in Churchyard, Immediately South-East of St Mary the Virgin
- 3 Cross in Churchyard About 11 Metres North of Tower, Church of St Mary the Virgin
- 4 Churchyard Cross Approximately 8 Metres South East of Chancel of Church of St Mary
- 5 Churchyard Cross About 5 Yards South of the Church of St Mary
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings