Sourton Down Cross is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1967. Cross.
Sourton Down Cross
- WRENN ID
- plain-granite-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1967
- Type
- Cross
- OS grid reference
- SX 545 915
- Coordinates
- 50.70536, -4.06121
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sourton Down Cross is a wayside cross that may have originally been an early Christian stone, which was converted to a cross in late medieval times. It is made of roughly squared granite and features a Latin cross with very short arms. The shaft of the cross has an inscription that runs in three lines downwards, but it is mostly illegible. It has been interpreted as a personal name preceded by a title of authority, along with a symbol of Christianity. Additionally, the cross has later inscriptions of the initials of Hatherleigh, Okehampton, Tavistock, and Launceston on its various faces, serving as a guide-post.
Local climate
Sourton Down Cross sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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