TWO CARVED FIGURES AND A DIRECTION STONE AGAINST NORTH WEST CORNER OF PETHERTON BRIDGE AT NGR ST 4500 1670

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1056969
Date first listed:: 18-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: TWO CARVED FIGURES AND A DIRECTION STONE AGAINST NORTH WEST CORNER OF PETHERTON BRIDGE AT NGR ST 4500 1670
Statutory Address:: TWO CARVED FIGURES AND A DIRECTION STONE AGAINST NORTH WEST CORNER OF PETHERTON BRIDGE AT NGR ST 4500 1670

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1056969
Date first listed:: 18-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: TWO CARVED FIGURES AND A DIRECTION STONE AGAINST NORTH WEST CORNER OF PETHERTON BRIDGE AT NGR ST 4500 1670
Statutory Address 1:: TWO CARVED FIGURES AND A DIRECTION STONE AGAINST NORTH WEST CORNER OF PETHERTON BRIDGE AT NGR ST 4500 1670

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.

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: TWO CARVED FIGURES AND A DIRECTION STONE AGAINST NORTH WEST CORNER OF PETHERTON BRIDGE AT NGR ST 4500 1670

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: South Petherton
National Grid Reference:: ST 45055 16714

Details

SOUTH PETHERTON CP ST41NE 3/90 Two carved figures and a direction stone against north-west corner of Petherton Bridge at NGR ST 4500 1670

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Two figures and a direction stone. Possibly C15 and C18. All in carved Ham stone. The figures are of a boy and a girl, about one metre high, set in a special housing at the side of the bridge: they are said to be a memorial to two children who drowned from the former decayed wooden bridge, which as a memorial to them was replaced by a 3-arch stone bridge, demolished in the early 1970s: this is thought to have been a Roman crossing point of the Fosse Way. The direction stone, now set immediately to the west, is presumably relocated from the junction of the Fossway and the old road to Yeovil; it is about 450mm x 150mm, and 600mm high, tapered with rounded top, and is inscribed on the north face 'THE RIG/(H)T HAND/ R0A(D)/ LEAD(S)/ TO YEO/(VIL)'. (Greenwood C and J, Somerset Delineated, 1822: VCH, Vol III, 1974: Bentley JB and Murless BJ, Somerset Roads, SIAS, 1985).

Listing NGR: ST4505516714

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 264174
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Bentley, J B, Murless, B J , Somerset Roads: The Legacy of the Turnpikes Western Somerset, (1985)
Greenwood, C, Greenwood, J , Somerset Delineated, (1822)
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1974)

Legal

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