Market Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1950. Market cross.
Market Cross
- WRENN ID
- lone-gravel-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1950
- Type
- Market cross
- Address
- Market Cross, Market Place, Glastonbury
- OS grid reference
- ST 498 389
- Coordinates
- 51.14737, -2.71799
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Market Cross, built in 1846 by Benjamin Ferrey, is a Grade II listed structure located in Market Place. It features a Perpendicular style design and is constructed from ashlar stone. The cross is composed of three stages, with an octagonal base that supports a spirelet adorned with openwork tracery, tabernacles, and finials. At the top, there is a wrought-iron weathervane. The Market Cross is part of a significant group that includes Nos 1 and 2 Market Place, Nos 6 to 9 Market Place, Nos 2 to 10 High Street (South side), and the Crown Hotel to No 11 High Street (North side).
Local climate
Market Cross 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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