Cross, Sometimes Known As Lord Dacres Cross
CROSS, SOMETIMES KNOWN AS LORD DACRES CROSS, TOWTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1148443
- Date first listed:
- 03-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Cross, Sometimes Known As Lord Dacres Cross
- Statutory Address:
- CROSS, SOMETIMES KNOWN AS LORD DACRES CROSS, TOWTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1148443
- Date first listed:
- 03-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Cross, Sometimes Known As Lord Dacres Cross
- Statutory Address 1:
- CROSS, SOMETIMES KNOWN AS LORD DACRES CROSS, TOWTON ROAD
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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:
- CROSS, SOMETIMES KNOWN AS LORD DACRES CROSS, TOWTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Towton
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 47828 38639
Details
SAXTON WITH SCARTHINGWELL TOWTON ROAD SE 43 NE (west side) 3/30 Cross, sometimes known as Lord Dacre's Cross 3.2.67 II
Cross. C15. Magnesian limestone ashlar. Reputedly for Lord Dacre. Tapering squared shaft below wheel head cross, set in splayed base on stepped modern plinth, the whole approximately 2 metres high. Locally said to mark Lord Dacre's or one of the graves, after the Battle of Towton in 1461. Richard III founded a chapel at Towton "in token of praier and for the souls of the men slain at Palme Sunday Field" but it was never finished. Probably the cross was brought from there, to serve partly as a memorial to Towton Field, which it overlooks, and partly as a boundary stone. Pevsner N, Yorkshire, The West Riding, 1979, p 432.
Listing NGR: SE4782838639
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 326368
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967), 432
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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