The Village Cross
THE VILLAGE CROSS, WEST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1056096
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- The Village Cross
- Statutory Address:
- THE VILLAGE CROSS, WEST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1056096
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- The Village Cross
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE VILLAGE CROSS, WEST STREET
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:
- THE VILLAGE CROSS, WEST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hinton St. George
- National Grid Reference:
- ST4197012622
Details
ST4112 HINTON ST GEORGE CP WEST STREET (North side)
7/83 The Village Cross
4.2.58
GV II*
Village cross. Late medieval, with C18 finial. Ham stone ashlar. Octagonal base, the lowest part about 3 metres across
and average 900mm high, having chamfered plinth and chamfered coving to nosing of water-holding step of about 500mm
wide, then 2 similar steps about 600mm and 450mm high. Square plan socket base, having a chamfered plinth, in all about
750mm wide x 500mm high, the top corners either broached or prepared as bases for small pinnacles. The shaft square at
base changing to an octagon, with statue, said to be of St John the Baptist, in canopied surround applied on east face.
Finial of classical design, with Doric cap, cube for a former sundial, and a ball finial, the whole about 6 metres
high. One of the best village crosses/Tn G county, with important streetscene value, in what is probably its original
position. Scheduled Ancient Monument, (Somerset County No 432). (Pooley, Old Crosses of Somerset, 1877; VCH Somerset,
Vol IV, 1978, p39).
Listing NGR: ST4197012622
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 262333
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1978), 39
Pooley, C, An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Old Stone Crosses of Somerset, (1877)
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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