Churchyard Cross Base and Shaft is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1985. A Medieval Monument.
Churchyard Cross Base and Shaft
- WRENN ID
- graven-grate-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1985
- Type
- Monument
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Churchyard Cross Base and Shaft, Warslow and Elkstones, Staffordshire Moorlands
- OS grid reference
- SK 086 586
- Coordinates
- 53.12481, -1.87246
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The churchyard cross base and shaft, likely from the 15th century, is made of gritstone. It features a roughly square base and a shaft with a roughly elliptical section that has been truncated. The shaft does not originally belong to the base and has been relocated from another site.
Local climate
Churchyard Cross Base and Shaft receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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