Market Cross
MARKET CROSS, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1058383
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1952
- Statutory Address:
- MARKET CROSS, MARKET PLACE
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- Date:
- 2003-05-15
- Reference:
- IOE01/08503/02
- Rights:
- © Mike Bedingfield. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1058383
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1952
- Statutory Address 1:
- MARKET CROSS, MARKET PLACE
Location
- Statutory Address:
- MARKET CROSS, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Shepton Mallet
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 61890 43652
Details
ST6143 SHEPTON MALLET CP MARKET PLACE (centre)
6/194 Market Cross
20.5.52
- II*
Market Cross. Established c1500, completely rebuilt 1841 by G.P. Manners. Dressed Doulting. Perpendicular style. Octagonal open arcade with spirelet springing from central bench pier. 3-stage pinnacled spire with canopied niches having cinquefoil heads, the spandrel spaces above the canopies being ornamented with foliation. Spire springs from massive central hexagonal pier surrounded by open arcade of 6-segmental arches on pillars. Open quatrefoil parapet around top with crocketed pinnacle at each corner and over the centre of each arch. Whole cross on cobbled plinth, with masonary bench in 3-stages around central pier. A plaque, approximately 100mm by 700mm, attached to the central pier has an inscription in 4 lines stating that the cross was set up in 1500 by Walter Buckland and his wife Agnes. (Pooley, Old Crosses of Somerset, 1877).
Listing NGR: ST6189043651
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 266593
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pooley, C, An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Old Stone Crosses of Somerset, (1877)
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