Marchant's Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1967. Cross.
Marchant's Cross
- WRENN ID
- fallen-tallow-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Constituency
- South West Devon MP: Rebecca Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1967
- Type
- Cross
- Address
- Marchant's Cross, Meavy, West Devon
- OS grid reference
- SX 546 668
- Coordinates
- 50.48306, -4.05058
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Marchant's Cross is a wayside cross that is mentioned in a document from 1291, suggesting it dates back at least to that time. It is a roughly hewn monolithic granite Latin cross with short arms, featuring an inscribed Latin cross on both the front and back.
Local climate
Marchant's Cross sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% 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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