Churchyard Cross is a Grade II* listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 June 1961. A Medieval Cross.
Churchyard Cross
- WRENN ID
- unlit-wattle-peregrine
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 June 1961
- Type
- Cross
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Churchyard Cross, East Pennard
- OS grid reference
- ST 596 374
- Coordinates
- 51.13505, -2.57757
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Churchyard Cross in East Pennard is a 15th-century structure that has been restored and now serves as a war memorial, established in 1919. It is made of dressed stone and features a base consisting of three square steps leading up to a square socket. The shaft is tapering and octagonal, topped with a restored tabernacle head.
Local climate
Churchyard Cross receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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