Plague Cross is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1984. A C17 Cross.
Plague Cross
- WRENN ID
- bitter-baluster-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Wetherby and Easingwold MP: Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1984
- Type
- Cross
- Address
- Plague Cross, Alne
- OS grid reference
- SE 494 648
- Coordinates
- 54.07738, -1.24626
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Plague Cross is a stone cross base with a later milestone inscription, accompanied by a stone trough for disinfected water. It features an octagonal shaft set on a low chamfered plinth. This structure is traditionally linked to the plague of 1604, when it is believed to have served as a barter location outside the village, where food was left and money was deposited in the trough.
Local climate
Plague Cross receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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