Lacon Cross is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1967. A Medieval Cross.
Lacon Cross
- WRENN ID
- sombre-threshold-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1967
- Type
- Cross
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Lacon Cross, Green Lane, Sawley
- OS grid reference
- SE 244 666
- Coordinates
- 54.09526, -1.62747
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lacon Cross is a Grade II listed medieval monument located in Sawley on the north side of Green Lane. It is likely associated with the monks of Fountains Abbey. The cross is made of gritstone and features a plinth composed of flat stones, forming a base that is approximately 1.5 metres square and 20 centimetres high. At the center of the plinth is a socket stone, which measures about 60 centimetres square and 40 centimetres high, with a hollowed top designed to hold the cross shaft. The shaft itself is square in section and has roll mouldings at the corners, surviving to an approximate height of 1 metre. This cross likely served as a route marker for travelers crossing Butterton Bridge from Warsill and the south to Fountains Abbey.
Local climate
Lacon Cross receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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