SOCKET OF CHURCHYARD CROSS, IN CHURCHYARD 10 METRES SOUTH OF SOUTH PORCH, CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1059040
Date first listed:: 29-Mar-1963
List Entry Name:: SOCKET OF CHURCHYARD CROSS, IN CHURCHYARD 10 METRES SOUTH OF SOUTH PORCH, CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
Statutory Address:: SOCKET OF CHURCHYARD CROSS, IN CHURCHYARD 10 METRES SOUTH OF SOUTH PORCH, CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN

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Date:: 2002-10-04
Reference:: IOE01/08940/08
Rights:: © Mr Robert Sutherland. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1059040
Date first listed:: 29-Mar-1963
Date of most recent amendment:: 24-Jun-1985
List Entry Name:: SOCKET OF CHURCHYARD CROSS, IN CHURCHYARD 10 METRES SOUTH OF SOUTH PORCH, CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
Statutory Address 1:: SOCKET OF CHURCHYARD CROSS, IN CHURCHYARD 10 METRES SOUTH OF SOUTH PORCH, CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN

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:: SOCKET OF CHURCHYARD CROSS, IN CHURCHYARD 10 METRES SOUTH OF SOUTH PORCH, CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Nether Stowey
National Grid Reference:: ST 19678 39614

Details

ST13NE NETHER STOWEY CP

11/60 Socket of churchyard cross, in churchyard 10 metres South of South porch, Church of St Mary the Virgin (formerly listed as Remains of Churchyard Cross under General) 29.3.63

GV II

Socket of churchyard cross. Late C14. Dressed sandstone. Octagonal with recessed facings, the upper bed forming a heavy weatherdrip, the lower a bold off-set; section of broken octagonal shaft inset. Scheduled Ancient Monument (Somerset County No 225). (Pooley, Old Crosses of Somerset, 1877).

Listing NGR: ST1967839614

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Legacy System number:: 268909
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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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.