Cross South of Church of St Cuthbert is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. Cross.
Cross South of Church of St Cuthbert
- WRENN ID
- heavy-ledge-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cross
- Address
- Cross South of Church of St Cuthbert, Clifton
- OS grid reference
- NY 531 270
- Coordinates
- 54.63627, -2.72666
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a churchyard cross sundial located south of the Church of St Cuthbert in Clifton. It dates back to the medieval period and is made of calciferous sandstone. The structure features a square base socket stone with a chamfered-edged shaft. At the top, there is an 18th-century bronze sundial, which is missing its gnomon and is inscribed with the initials I&MG.
Local climate
Cross South of Church of St Cuthbert 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 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
- 1 Churchyard Cross About 10 Metres South of the Tower of the Church of St Cuthbert
- 2 Sundial South West of Church of St Cuthbert
- 3 Sundial Approximately 10 Metres South of Church of St Cuthbert
- 4 Churchyard Cross at Church of St Cuthbert
- 5 Former Churchyard Cross, Approximately 5 Metres South of the Church of St Chad
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings