BOUNDARY STONE AT NORTHFIELD

BOUNDARY STONE AT NORTHFIELD, SUNDAYSHILL LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1137240
Date first listed:: 05-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:: BOUNDARY STONE AT NORTHFIELD
Statutory Address:: BOUNDARY STONE AT NORTHFIELD, SUNDAYSHILL LANE

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Date:: 2000-10-18
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1137240
Date first listed:: 05-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:: BOUNDARY STONE AT NORTHFIELD
Statutory Address 1:: BOUNDARY STONE AT NORTHFIELD, SUNDAYSHILL LANE

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:: BOUNDARY STONE AT NORTHFIELD, SUNDAYSHILL LANE

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

District:: South Gloucestershire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Rockhampton
National Grid Reference:: ST6567493789

Details

ST 69 SE 5/260

ROCKHAMPTON SUNDAYS HILL LANE (north side) Boundary Stone at Northfield

II

Boundary stone. Possibly Anglo-Saxon or earlier, but re-set. Large upright rough stone in limestone or conglomerate, surface much pitted; c.1.25 m high, and up to 500 mm wide and 300 mm thick, coming roughly to a peak. Bears bronze plate with inscription: THIS MARKER STONE BELIEVED TO BE OF ANGLO-SAXON AND PROBABLY PREHISTORIC ORIGIN STANDS IN THE VICINITY OF THE ANCIENT BOUNDARY OF THE BERKELEY HUNDRED AND THE LANGLEY AND SWYNESHEAD HUNDRED. The stone was recovered from beneath the highway and reinstated in its present position by Avon County Council in 1984.

Listing NGR: ST6567493789

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Legacy System number:: 35366
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.