Market Cross

MARKET CROSS, MARKET SQUARE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1145758
Date first listed:
22-Mar-1983
List Entry Name:
Market Cross
Statutory Address:
MARKET CROSS, MARKET SQUARE

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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1145758
Date first listed:
22-Mar-1983
List Entry Name:
Market Cross
Statutory Address 1:
MARKET CROSS, MARKET SQUARE

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
MARKET CROSS, MARKET SQUARE

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

District:
Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Kirkby Lonsdale
National Grid Reference:
SD6117278619

Details

MARKET SQUARE
1.
5166

Market Cross

SD 6178 NW
5/93
II
GV

2.
1905. Tudor Gothic. Octagonal stone canopy with low pyramidal slate roof. Eight
equal arches with leaf enrichment in spandrels, four blocked with low parapets.
Each pier buttressed with two setbacks and topped by an obelisk and ball. Round
headed niches in each buttress. Parapet embattled. Large stone cross at apex of
roof. Inside shallow stone rib vault supported on engaged colonnettes. Inscription
on frieze in raised Gothic script: "This Market Cross was presented to the town by
the Rev J.W.Davies D.D. Vicar of Kirkby-Lonsdale from 1889 to 1908. 1905".


Listing NGR: SD6117278619

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
75207
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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