Roadside Cross at Ngr St 4248 4966 is a Grade II* listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1961. Roadside cross.

Roadside Cross at Ngr St 4248 4966

WRENN ID
stony-steel-fern
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 February 1961
Type
Roadside cross
Address
Roadside Cross at Ngr St 4248 4966, Wedmore
OS grid reference
ST 424 496
Coordinates
51.24318, -2.82544
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a 15th-century roadside cross made of dressed stone, located at Stoughton Cross in Wedmore. It features a base consisting of three square steps and a square socket with shallow angular broaches. The shaft is tapering and polygonal, reinforced with iron, although the top part of the cross is missing. This information is noted in Pooley's "Old Crosses of Somerset" from 1871.

Local climate

Roadside Cross at Ngr St 4248 4966 receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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