St Cedds Well

ST CEDD'S WELL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1149030
Date first listed:
24-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:
St Cedds Well
Statutory Address:
ST CEDD'S WELL
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1149030
Date first listed:
24-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:
St Cedds Well
Statutory Address 1:
ST CEDD'S WELL

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
ST CEDD'S WELL

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

District:
North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Lastingham
National Park:
North York Moors
National Grid Reference:
SE7291890458

Details

SE 7290
12/107

LASTINGHAM
VILLAGE (centre)
St Cedd's Well

II

Public fountain. Erected in C19 reusing C12 stone from Rosedale Abbey.
Dressed sandstone. Square on plan. Pointed cusped canopy reused to form a
flat lintel on colonettes with voluted cushion capitals. Flat cornice and
stepped cap terminating in a moulded pedestal carring an iron cross. The
lintel is inscribed: "St Cedd's Well". Interior: lions head pump with a
later tap above. A wooden panel records the weathered inscription incised
on the left return:
CEDD
ABBIE LASTINGAE FUNDATOR
AD 654
OBIIT AD 664 ET SEPULTUS EST
IN ECCLASIA A DEXTRA ALTARIS

Listing NGR: SE7291890458

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
328944
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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