The City Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 12 February 1952. Cross.

The City Cross

WRENN ID
vast-finial-stoat
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cardiff
Constituency
Cardiff West MP: Mr Alex Barros-Curtis (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
12 February 1952
Type
Cross
Address
The City Cross, Llandaff
OS grid reference
ST 155 780
Coordinates
51.49508, -3.21855
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The City Cross is a restored stone cross set on a four-stepped square stone plinth. The plinth is inscribed with the following text: "The City Cross was reset, and the Green partially enclosed at the public cost, by the Llandaff Parish Council, in the year of our Lord 1897, being the sixtieth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria. James R Buckley, Chairman." The cross features a broached socket stone that leads to an octagonal cross-shaft topped with a chamfered head.

Local climate

The City Cross sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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