The Market Cross Also Known As the Pinnacle is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 1987. Market cross.
The Market Cross Also Known As the Pinnacle
- WRENN ID
- sheer-bracket-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 April 1987
- Type
- Market cross
- Address
- The Market Cross Also Known As the Pinnacle, Church Street, Martock
- OS grid reference
- ST 462 192
- Coordinates
- 50.97042, -2.76647
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Market Cross, also known as The Pinnacle, is located on Church Street and features a medieval base with a column dated 1741. The structure, which stands about 6 metres tall, was almost entirely rebuilt in 1982 using Ham stone ashlar. It has a circular base on a circular step, with additional stones at the cardinal points. Above this is a square, stepped plinth block that supports a fluted Tuscan column, which is said to have been modeled after one at Wilton. Atop the column is a block with four sundial faces, one of which displays the 1741 date and has rod gnomons. The structure is finished with a ball finial that is crowned by a wrought-iron weathervane. It is believed that the upper column was added by the then Lord of the Manor, as noted by Pooley in "Old Crosses of Somerset" from 1872.
Local climate
The Market Cross Also Known As the Pinnacle receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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