Market Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1989. Monument.
Market Cross
- WRENN ID
- silent-thatch-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 December 1989
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Market Cross, the Square, Holsworthy
- OS grid reference
- SS 343 038
- Coordinates
- 50.81003, -4.3532
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Market Cross is a mid-19th century sandstone ashlar monument located in The Square, Holsworthy. It features a square design with recessed panels on each side, each adorned with five-cusped heads. The cross has diagonal hollow mould cornices and is set on a moulded plinth that rests on two octagonal steps. Above the moulded cornice, there is a truncated pinnacle with crocketted corners, along with small diagonal pinnacles at the corners; two of these are complete, while one lacks cresting and another is merely a stump. There are no inscriptions or dates on the monument, leading to the assumption that it is a 19th-century replacement of a medieval original. The Square continues to serve as a venue for weekly markets.
Local climate
Market Cross sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,070 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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