Base of Cross at Junction with B3151 is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1959. Cross base.
Base of Cross at Junction with B3151
- WRENN ID
- rusted-crypt-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1959
- Type
- Cross base
- Address
- Base of Cross at Junction with B3151, Compton Street, Compton Dundon
- OS grid reference
- ST 489 328
- Coordinates
- 51.093, -2.7304
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The base of a wayside cross, likely dating from the 14th century, is located at the junction with the B3151 in Compton Dundon. It is constructed from Ham stone and features two 20th-century circular stone steps, measuring 2 metres and 1.5 metres in diameter and both 300 millimetres high, which replaced four earlier steps. A fragment of a circular top step remains, approximately 1 metre in diameter and 175 millimetres high. Above this is the socket, which measures about 700 millimetres square and is 250 millimetres high, with deeply broached corners. Only about 300 millimetres of the shaft survives, as the rest was destroyed "by some people in a drunken frolic" prior to 1877, according to Pooley's "Old Crosses of Somerset" published in that year.
Local climate
Base of Cross at Junction with B3151 receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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