Sourton Down Cross
SOURTON DOWN CROSS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106263
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Sourton Down Cross
- Statutory Address:
- SOURTON DOWN CROSS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106263
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Sourton Down Cross
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOURTON DOWN CROSS
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- SOURTON DOWN CROSS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sourton
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX5455291553
Details
SOURTON
SX 59 SW
8/119 Sourton Down Cross
-
22.2.67
- II
Wayside Cross. May originally have been an early Christian stone converted to a
cross in late medieval times. Roughly squared granite Latin cross with very short
arms. The shaft bears an inscription which runs in 3 lines downwards but is
virtually illegible although it has been interpreted as a personal name preceded by
a title of authority accompanied by a symbol of Christianity. The cross has later
had the initials of Hatherleigh, Okehampton, Tavistock and Launceston inscribed on
its various faces as a guide-post.
Source: Dartmoor Crosses - F H Starkey.
Listing NGR: SX5455291553
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 94360
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Starkey, F H, Dartmoor Crosses And Some Ancient Tracks, (1989)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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