CHURCHYARD CROSS, 2 METRES SOUTH OF PORCH, CHURCH OF THE HOLY GHOST

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1057442
Date first listed:: 16-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: CHURCHYARD CROSS, 2 METRES SOUTH OF PORCH, CHURCH OF THE HOLY GHOST
Statutory Address:: CHURCHYARD CROSS, 2 METRES SOUTH OF PORCH, CHURCH OF THE HOLY GHOST

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Date:: 2002-07-24
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1057442
Date first listed:: 16-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: CHURCHYARD CROSS, 2 METRES SOUTH OF PORCH, CHURCH OF THE HOLY GHOST
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCHYARD CROSS, 2 METRES SOUTH OF PORCH, CHURCH OF THE HOLY GHOST

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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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCHYARD CROSS, 2 METRES SOUTH OF PORCH, CHURCH OF THE HOLY GHOST

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Crowcombe
National Grid Reference:: ST 14070 36695

Details

ST1436 CROWCOMBE CP CROWCOMBE 16/53 Churchyard Cross, 2 metres South of porch, Church of the Holy Ghost

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GV II*

Churchyard Cross. C14. Red sandstone, Ham stone shaft. Octagonal calvary of 3 steps, square socket with chamfered corners and steep convex broaches; octagonal shaft with 3 bay crocketed niche on West front containing figures, much eroded. Pooley identifies them thus: the larger central figure a bishop, St. John the Baptist left and the prioress of the convent of Studeley, holders of the Manor of Crowcombe, right; and calls it 'an exceedingly rich example of Fourteenth century work'. Scheduled Ancient Monument (Somerset County No 242). (Pooley, Old Crosses of Somerset, 1877; photograph in NMR).

Listing NGR: ST1406936696

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Legacy System number:: 265087
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pooley, C, An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Old Stone Crosses of Somerset, (1877)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 37 Somerset,

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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.