Cross, Sometimes Known As Lord Dacres Cross is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 February 1967. A Medieval Cross.
Cross, Sometimes Known As Lord Dacres Cross
- WRENN ID
- standing-rubble-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Wetherby and Easingwold MP: Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 February 1967
- Type
- Cross
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Cross, Sometimes Known As Lord Dacres Cross, Towton Road
- OS grid reference
- SE 478 386
- Coordinates
- 53.84182, -1.27461
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cross, sometimes known as Lord Dacre's Cross, dates from the 15th century and is made of magnesian limestone ashlar. It is reputedly associated with Lord Dacre. The cross features a tapering squared shaft below a wheel head cross, which is set in a splayed base on a stepped modern plinth, making the entire structure approximately 2 metres high. Locally, it is believed to mark Lord Dacre's grave or one of the graves following the Battle of Towton in 1461. Richard III established a chapel at Towton "in token of prayer and for the souls of the men slain at Palm Sunday Field," although it was never completed. It is likely that the cross was moved from there to serve as a memorial to Towton Field, which it overlooks, and also as a boundary stone.
Local climate
Cross, Sometimes Known As Lord Dacres Cross receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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