South Week Cross is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1967. Wayside cross.

South Week Cross

WRENN ID
low-entrance-elder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Devon
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 February 1967
Type
Wayside cross
Address
South Week Cross, North Tawton
OS grid reference
SS 653 015
Coordinates
50.79746, -3.91204
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

South Week Cross is a wayside cross from the late medieval period. It is made of granite and features a monolithic Latin cross with a tapered shaft. The front edges of the shaft are chamfered, but the right-hand arm of the cross is missing.

Local climate

South Week Cross sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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