CROSS BASE AND SUNDIAL APPROXIMATELY 23.5 METRES SOUTH OF TOWER OF SAINT THOMAS'S

CROSS BASE AND SUNDIAL APPROXIMATELY 23.5 METRES SOUTH OF TOWER OF SAINT THOMAS'S, ROCK LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1075846
Date first listed:: 11-Oct-1968
List Entry Name:: CROSS BASE AND SUNDIAL APPROXIMATELY 23.5 METRES SOUTH OF TOWER OF SAINT THOMAS'S
Statutory Address:: CROSS BASE AND SUNDIAL APPROXIMATELY 23.5 METRES SOUTH OF TOWER OF SAINT THOMAS'S, ROCK LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1075846
Date first listed:: 11-Oct-1968
Date of most recent amendment:: 17-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:: CROSS BASE AND SUNDIAL APPROXIMATELY 23.5 METRES SOUTH OF TOWER OF SAINT THOMAS'S
Statutory Address 1:: CROSS BASE AND SUNDIAL APPROXIMATELY 23.5 METRES SOUTH OF TOWER OF SAINT THOMAS'S, ROCK LANE

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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:: CROSS BASE AND SUNDIAL APPROXIMATELY 23.5 METRES SOUTH OF TOWER OF SAINT THOMAS'S, ROCK LANE

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

District:: Sefton (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Melling
National Grid Reference:: SD3888700221

Details

MELLING ROCK LANE SD 30 SE (north-east side) 7/114 Cross base and sundial approx. 11.10.68 23.5 m south of tower of Saint Thomas' (q.v.) (formerly listed with churchyard wall) G.V. II Cross base and later sundial. Possibly medieval, sundial C18. Square stone base on step has square mortise. Cross replaced by fluted Tuscan column supporting square abacus with metal plate, gnomon missing.

Listing NGR: SD3888700221

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Legacy System number:: 216513
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.