Market Cross, The Green, Swinton is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 June 1971. Monument.
Market Cross, The Green, Swinton
- WRENN ID
- twisted-jamb-thyme
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 9 June 1971
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- NT 835 474
- Coordinates
- 55.71982, -2.26405
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Market Cross, located on The Green in Swinton, dates back to 1769. It features a weathered sandstone classical column at the center of the village green. The structure has a three-stage, stepped circular base that supports a square pedestal with a splayed base and a moulded cap. Above this, there is a circular shaft with entasis, a moulded base, and a capital. At the top, a square finial is adorned with a carving of a boar beneath a tree on the northwest side. The remaining three sides of the finial have sundials with metal gnomons.
Local climate
Market Cross, The Green, Swinton receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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