Market Cross is a Grade II* listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1961. A C15 Market cross.
Market Cross
- WRENN ID
- dusk-steel-jet
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1961
- Type
- Market cross
- Address
- Market Cross, Union Street, Cheddar
- OS grid reference
- ST 459 532
- Coordinates
- 51.27539, -2.77666
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Market Cross is a 15th-century market cross located on Church Street in Cheddar. The shelter was rebuilt in 1834 and features ashlar stonework with a wood-framed roof. It has a central octagonal pier that is raised on three steps, surrounded by a hexagonal shelter with six arched openings that have four-centred arches. Each angle of the shelter is supported by shallow two-stage buttresses, and it is topped with an embattled parapet. The shaft of the cross is crowned by an abacus that holds figures in niches, which are likely from the late 19th century; however, the cross itself is missing. The structure was rebuilt by Thomas, Marquis of Bath, and it is designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument, listed as Somerset County No 21.
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 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% 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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