Socket Stone of Medieval Cross in Garden South West of Cross House
SOCKET STONE OF MEDIEVAL CROSS IN GARDEN SOUTH WEST OF CROSS HOUSE, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1147604
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Socket Stone of Medieval Cross in Garden South West of Cross House
- Statutory Address:
- SOCKET STONE OF MEDIEVAL CROSS IN GARDEN SOUTH WEST OF CROSS HOUSE, FORE STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1147604
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Socket Stone of Medieval Cross in Garden South West of Cross House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOCKET STONE OF MEDIEVAL CROSS IN GARDEN SOUTH WEST OF CROSS HOUSE, FORE 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:
- SOCKET STONE OF MEDIEVAL CROSS IN GARDEN SOUTH WEST OF CROSS HOUSE, FORE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bishopsteignton
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 91000 73729
Details
BISHOPSTEIGNTON FORE STREET (south side), SX 9073-9173 Bishopsteignton 13/55 Socket stone of medieval cross in - garden south west of Cross House
GV II
Socket stone of preaching cross. Medieval. Granite. Socket stone with moulded corners. The complete cross is said originally to have stood on the site of the entrance to Cross House. The base was used as a pigs trough and rescued from the foreshore of the Teign in 1927 and placed in the garden of Cross House by the owner, Mr Duder (Cleland). Cleland, W.D.( ed), Bishopsteignton, South Devon, A Short History and Guide (1930), p. 36.
Listing NGR: SX9100073729
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 85718
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cleland, W D, Bishopsteignton South Devon: A Short History and Guide, (1930), 36
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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