PLAGUE CROSS
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1151296
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jun-1984
- Statutory Address:
- PLAGUE CROSS
Map
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- PLAGUE CROSS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- North Yorkshire
- District:
- Hambleton (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Alne
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 49416 64866
Details
SE 46 SE ALNE
7/5
Plague Cross
II
Cross base, with later milestone inscription, and adjoining stone trough for
disinfected water. Stone. Octagonal shaft on low chamfered plinth. Traditionally
connected with the plague of 1604 when it is said to have been a place of barter
outside the village where food would be left and money deposited in the trough.
Pevsner, N., Yorkshire, North Riding, 1966, p 60
VCH Yorkshire, North Riding, 1923, p 85
Listing NGR: SE4941664866
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 333348
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of York: North Riding, (1923), 85
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The North Riding, (1966), 60
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing