CROSS 1 METRE NORTH OF CHURCH OF SAINT WENAPPA

CROSS 1 METRE NORTH OF CHURCH OF SAINT WENAPPA, CHURCHTOWN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1136478
Date first listed:: 03-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:: CROSS 1 METRE NORTH OF CHURCH OF SAINT WENAPPA
Statutory Address:: CROSS 1 METRE NORTH OF CHURCH OF SAINT WENAPPA, CHURCHTOWN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1136478
Date first listed:: 03-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:: CROSS 1 METRE NORTH OF CHURCH OF SAINT WENAPPA
Statutory Address 1:: CROSS 1 METRE NORTH OF CHURCH OF SAINT WENAPPA, CHURCHTOWN

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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Location

Statutory Address:: CROSS 1 METRE NORTH OF CHURCH OF SAINT WENAPPA, CHURCHTOWN

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Gwennap
National Grid Reference:: SW7387740113

Details

GWENNAP CHURCHTOWN, Gwennap SW 74 SW 4/114 Cross lm north of Church of Saint Wenappa (formerly listed as Cross 30.5.67 in Vivarage Garden) GV II* Cross. Circa C13. Granite monolith with round-head. Square on plan. Resited and repaired. North side has cross in relief on shaft with bulbous head over with convex moulded border enclosing sunk panel with relief carving of figure of Christ with outstretched arms. The feet continue under the border and rest on the cross bar of the cross. The south side has broad Latin Cross continuing into and almost filling the head and with convex moulded border to shaft and head. This cross formerly stood on a hedge at Chapel Moor, nearby but was removed to the vicarage garden circa 1840 by the Vicar, the Reverend Thomas Philpotts. Part of the shaft was used in a nearby stile until the 2 parts were reassembled circa mid C20. Information of former locations from History of Gwennap by C.C. James.

Listing NGR: SW7387740113

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Sources

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James, C C , A History of the Parish of Gwennap in Cornwall

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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.