High Cross
HIGH CROSS, WEST MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1025086
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-1971
- List Entry Name:
- High Cross
- Statutory Address:
- HIGH CROSS, WEST MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1025086
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-1971
- List Entry Name:
- High Cross
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGH CROSS, WEST MARKET PLACE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- HIGH CROSS, WEST MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Cotswold (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cirencester
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 02283 02094
Details
SP0202
578-1/4/338
CIRENCESTER
WEST MARKET PLACE
High Cross
23/07/71
GV
II
Cross. Medieval on C15 base. Limestone. Cross on octagonal shaft with boss of carved decoration; square-section stone base enriched with pointed tracery and band of quatrefoils, and with a double-chamfered top.
Removed from Market Place in C18 because of its delapidated condition and placed in Cirencester Park. Re-erected on present site in 1927.
Welsford J: Cirencester: A History and Guide: Gloucester: 1987, p.46-49;
The Buildings of England: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds: London: 1970, p.175.
Listing NGR: SP0228302094
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 365476
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1 The Cotswolds, (1970), 175
Welsford, J, Cirencester a History and Guide, (1987), 46-49
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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