MEDIEVAL CROSS BASE AT HEXTON MANOR (4M TO NW OF PORCH)

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1103254
Date first listed:: 21-Mar-1985
List Entry Name:: MEDIEVAL CROSS BASE AT HEXTON MANOR (4M TO NW OF PORCH)
Statutory Address:: MEDIEVAL CROSS BASE AT HEXTON MANOR (4M TO NW OF PORCH)

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1103254
Date first listed:: 21-Mar-1985
Date of most recent amendment:: 24-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:: MEDIEVAL CROSS BASE AT HEXTON MANOR (4M TO NW OF PORCH)
Statutory Address 1:: MEDIEVAL CROSS BASE AT HEXTON MANOR (4M TO NW OF PORCH)

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: MEDIEVAL CROSS BASE AT HEXTON MANOR (4M TO NW OF PORCH)

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Hexton
National Grid Reference:: TL 10803 30503

Details

HEXTON HEXTON TL 1030 (East side)

8/10 Medieval Cross Base - at Hexton Manor (4M to NW of porch)

GV II

Base of former Standing Cross. Probably that of a Palm Cross set up in the churchyard following a bequest in a will of 1524, but presumably removed in later C16, and base recovered and placed in present position probably when school built near church in 1846 for Madame de Lautour, Lady of the Manor. Hard limestone freestone. A single square block noted by the RCHM c.1909 as being 2ft 3inches square and eleven inches high. A square socket central for the crossshaft. The top is octagonal with a bold edge-roll, the transition to the square shaped bottom is by a convex topped stop at each corner. A cross is mentioned as standing by the town house door in a late C16 account of the parish by Francis Taverner (B.M. Add M.S. 6223: VCH (1908)352: RCHM (1911)116: inf Mrs. Ashley Cooper).

Listing NGR: TL1080330503

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Legacy System number:: 163020
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1908), 352
Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire, (1910)
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 21 Hertfordshire,

Legal

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