Bollard Set Into Corner Of 1 High Street Adjoining The Quay

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

BIDEFORD

SS4526 HIGH STREET 842-1/5/96 (South side) Bollard set into corner of 1 High St adjoining The Quay

GV II

Bollard. Probably C16 or C17. Painted stone. Sharply-battered fluted shaft with prominent rounded necking and large ball finial. Latterly its function must have been to protect the corner of the building from carts, but it may originally have stood on the quay, which has been considerably widened. It has also been suggested that this was the 'tome stone .... on which payments and binding agreements were made without recourse to pen and paper.' (Grant A: The Book of Bideford: Buckingham: 1987-: P.16, 20).

Listing NGR: SS4545126584

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/1773 IOE Records taken by Tim Sanders; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr Tim Sanders. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project