Market Cross and Stocks
MARKET CROSS AND STOCKS, VILLAGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1131302
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Market Cross and Stocks
- Statutory Address:
- MARKET CROSS AND STOCKS, VILLAGE STREET
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- Date:
- 2003-04-04
- Reference:
- IOE01/07468/31
- Rights:
- © Mr Alan Bradley. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1131302
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Market Cross and Stocks
- Statutory Address 1:
- MARKET CROSS AND STOCKS, VILLAGE STREET
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:
- MARKET CROSS AND STOCKS, VILLAGE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Newsham
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ1058810011
Details
NZ 11 SW NEWSHAM VILLAGE STREET
(south side)
2/107 Market cross and stocks
GV II
Cross and stocks. C16 cross restored 1828 and 1935, stocks 1828. Ashlar
sandstone cross. Wrought-iron stocks. Cross: 3 square steps supporting
octagonal base, with monolithic tapering shaft and C20 cap inscribed
"RSTD 1828 1935". Metal spike on top, braced in position by 4 brackets.
Immediately to east, pink granite boulder on the top of which are wrought-
iron shackles, with hinge and lock, incorporating 3 larger holes and one
smaller hole. Newsham had an important market in Tudor and Stuart times. T
Bulmer, History, Topography and Directory of North Yorkshire, (1890), p 468:
"Near the end of the street is an old stone cross, which was repaired by
subscription in 1828; at the same time, the old wooden stocks, which stood
close by, were replaced by iron ones; and this obsolete instrument of
correction is still in good preservation".
Listing NGR: NZ1058810011
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 322808
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bulmer, T, History Topography and Directory of North Yorkshire, (1890), 468
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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