Cross Approximately 40 Metres West of St Mary's Abbey Church is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 January 1983. A Medieval Cross.
Cross Approximately 40 Metres West of St Mary's Abbey Church
- WRENN ID
- narrow-corridor-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 January 1983
- Type
- Cross
- Period
- Medieval
- OS grid reference
- SX 740 674
- Coordinates
- 50.49301, -3.7768
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The structure is a medieval cross located approximately 40 metres west of St Mary's Abbey Church in Buckfastleigh. It is made of granite and features a broken cross-head, with one arm missing, and has a hollow chamfered moulding.
Local climate
Cross Approximately 40 Metres West of St Mary's Abbey Church receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% 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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