SUNDIAL APPROXIMATELY 12 METRES TO NORTH WEST OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF SAINT MARY THE VIRGIN

SUNDIAL APPROXIMATELY 12 METRES TO NORTH WEST OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF SAINT MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1055377
Date first listed:: 29-Oct-1986
List Entry Name:: SUNDIAL APPROXIMATELY 12 METRES TO NORTH WEST OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF SAINT MARY THE VIRGIN
Statutory Address:: SUNDIAL APPROXIMATELY 12 METRES TO NORTH WEST OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF SAINT MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1055377
Date first listed:: 29-Oct-1986
List Entry Name:: SUNDIAL APPROXIMATELY 12 METRES TO NORTH WEST OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF SAINT MARY THE VIRGIN
Statutory Address 1:: SUNDIAL APPROXIMATELY 12 METRES TO NORTH WEST OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF SAINT MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH STREET

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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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: SUNDIAL APPROXIMATELY 12 METRES TO NORTH WEST OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF SAINT MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH STREET

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District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Shawbury
National Grid Reference:: SJ 55898 21191

Details

SJ 5521 SHAWBURY C.P. CHURCH STREET (east side) 19/115 - Sundial approx. 12 metres to north- west of tower of Church of Saint Mary the Virgin GV II

Sundial. Late C18. Dressed grey sandstone. Circular base consisting of 4 steps with moulded nosings. Stubby Tuscan column. Circular copper dial plate inscribed: "Use well/these few bright/but ever fleetinge/hours" and "veni vide vale". Accounts record that 3s. was paid for putting up the sundial in 1784 and that £1 3s. 0d. was paid in 1786 for "a Dial piller". The dial appears to have been made in 1771 when £7 7s. 0d. was paid for it and £3 3s. 0d. for the dial plate. D.H.S. Cranage, An Architectural Account of the Churches of Shropshire, Part 8, p.724.

Listing NGR: SJ5589821191

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Cranage, DHS , An Architectural Account of the Churches of Shropshire, (1908), 724

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.