Porter Memorial Cross, St Patrick’s C of I Churchyard, Carncastle, Larne, Co Antrim is a listed building in the Mid and East Antrim local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
Porter Memorial Cross, St Patrick’s C of I Churchyard, Carncastle, Larne, Co Antrim
- WRENN ID
- dusk-outpost-burdock
- Grade
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid and East Antrim
- Constituency
- East Antrim MP: Sammy Wilson (DUP)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Irish grid reference
- D 359 070
- Coordinates
- 54.8929, -5.88158
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
The Porter Memorial Cross is a late Victorian Celtic Cross, constructed between 1880 and 1899. It stands within the churchyard of St Patrick’s Church of Ireland Church, in a rural setting in open countryside near Ballygally. The cross is made of stone in the style of an Irish High Cross and is finely carved with Celtic interlacing ornamentation. It is located within a rectangular enclosure defined by rubble stone walls of fairly uniform height, with a higher gable to the south representing the remains of the old 17th-century church at Carncastle. The cross is positioned on axis with a central opening, secured by a wrought iron gate. The monument commemorates the Reverend Classon Porter, who died in 1885. He was the occupant of Ballygally Castle and is known for publishing a detailed account of the castle in the Larne Reporter in 1884, subsequently reprinted in the Ulster Journal of Archaeology in 1901. The cross stands within the area of an existing monument (SMR: ANT35:14).
Local climate
Porter Memorial Cross, St Patrick’s C of I Churchyard, Carncastle, Larne, Co Antrim sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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