Market Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 March 1983. Market cross. 1 related planning application.
Market Cross
- WRENN ID
- sunken-granite-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 March 1983
- Type
- Market cross
- Address
- Market Cross, Market Square, Kirkby Lonsdale, LA6 2AN
- OS grid reference
- SD 611 786
- Coordinates
- 54.20185, -2.59671
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Market Cross, located in Market Square, was built in 1905 and is designed in the Tudor Gothic style. It features an octagonal stone canopy topped with a low pyramidal slate roof. The structure has eight equal arches adorned with leaf designs in the spandrels, with four of these arches blocked by low parapets. Each pier is buttressed with two setbacks and is topped by an obelisk and ball. There are round-headed niches in each buttress, and the parapet is embattled. At the apex of the roof stands a large stone cross. Inside, there is a shallow stone rib vault supported by engaged colonnettes. An inscription in raised Gothic script on the frieze reads: "This Market Cross was presented to the town by the Rev J.W. Davies D.D. Vicar of Kirkby-Lonsdale from 1889 to 1908. 1905."
Local climate
Market Cross sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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