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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- Reference:
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- 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
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 35366
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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