Base of Cross on South Side of Road at Corner of Drive to Church House Farmhouse

BASE OF CROSS ON SOUTH SIDE OF ROAD AT CORNER OF DRIVE TO CHURCH HOUSE FARMHOUSE, SOUTH ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1072571
Date first listed:
30-Jan-1987
Statutory Address:
BASE OF CROSS ON SOUTH SIDE OF ROAD AT CORNER OF DRIVE TO CHURCH HOUSE FARMHOUSE, SOUTH ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1072571
Date first listed:
30-Jan-1987
Statutory Address 1:
BASE OF CROSS ON SOUTH SIDE OF ROAD AT CORNER OF DRIVE TO CHURCH HOUSE FARMHOUSE, SOUTH ROAD

Location

Statutory Address:
BASE OF CROSS ON SOUTH SIDE OF ROAD AT CORNER OF DRIVE TO CHURCH HOUSE FARMHOUSE, SOUTH ROAD

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

County:
Lancashire
District:
Chorley (District Authority)
Parish:
Bretherton
National Grid Reference:
SD 47640 20381

Details

SD 42 SE
3/31


BRETHERTON,
SOUTH ROAD
Base of cross on south side of road at corner of drive to Church House Farmhouse

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Base of former cross, perhaps medieval. Stone. c. one metre square with tapered sides and now c.20cm high above ground level, with a filled-up circular recess in the upper surface. (Reference VCH Lancs VI p103: "The pedestal of the village cross still exists...")


Listing NGR: SD4764020381

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Farrer, W, Brownbill, J, The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster, (1911), 103

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