Graveyard Cross East of Church of St Kentigern is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 August 1985. Graveyard cross.
Graveyard Cross East of Church of St Kentigern
- WRENN ID
- scarred-pavement-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 August 1985
- Type
- Graveyard cross
- Address
- Graveyard Cross East of Church of St Kentigern, King Street, Aspatria
- OS grid reference
- NY 147 419
- Coordinates
- 54.76494, -3.32668
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The graveyard cross located east of the Church of St Kentigern in Aspatria is a late 19th-century structure, built as a facsimile of the 10th-century Gosforth Cross. It is made of red sandstone and features a stepped plinth with a tall shaft. The upper part of the shaft is intricately carved with interlace patterns and figures from Norse legend, and it is topped with a Celtic crosshead. This cross was erected in 1898 as a monument to the vicar W.S. Calverley, who authored "Early Sculptured Crosses in the Diocese of Carlisle" in 1899.
Local climate
Graveyard Cross East of Church of St Kentigern sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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