Cross Base at St Mary Hill is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 22 July 2003. Cross.

Cross Base at St Mary Hill

WRENN ID
slow-keystone-sedge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Constituency
Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
22 July 2003
Type
Cross
Address
Cross Base at St Mary Hill, Cowbridge / Y Bont-Faen, Llangan
OS grid reference
SS 960 785
Coordinates
51.4964, -3.49823
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Cross Base at St Mary Hill is a limestone socket stone for a wayside cross. It is square in shape and features a chamfered design at the base where the shaft is missing. The socket stone is presumably in its original location.

Local climate

Cross Base at St Mary Hill sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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