Market Cross
MARKET CROSS, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1153032
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Market Cross
- Statutory Address:
- MARKET CROSS, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1153032
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Market Cross
- Statutory Address 1:
- MARKET CROSS, HIGH 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:
- MARKET CROSS, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stalbridge
- National Grid Reference:
- ST7349117999
Details
ST 7317
7/30
4.10.60
STALBRIDGE
HIGH STREET (EAST SIDE)
Market Cross
GV
II*
Market Cross. Second half of C15. Cross head C20. Stone 3-step octagonal
base. Square plinth with three-quarters detached square columns in each
corner with moulded bases and capitals. Central panels with carving too
worn to be intelligible. Tapering octagonal shaft starting as square in the
base with the corners turning into attached pinnacles which terminate in finials.
To the west is a weathered carving of a figure standing on an animal under
a canopy with a floriate finial. Scheduled as an ancient monument. "RCHM,
Dorset, Vol III", HMSO, 1970, p249, no. 2; Hutchins John "The History and
Antiquities of the County of Dorset", Third ed. 1868, reprint by EP, 1973.
Vol iii, p670. Newman J and Pevsner N "The Buildings of England: Dorset",
Penguin, 1972, p396.
Listing NGR: ST7349117999
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 102344
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 249
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 396
Hutchins, J, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, (1868), 670
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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