PLATFORM WITH ROMAN ALTARS ON LAWN WEST OF ROKEBY PARK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1160901
Date first listed:: 28-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: PLATFORM WITH ROMAN ALTARS ON LAWN WEST OF ROKEBY PARK
Statutory Address:: PLATFORM WITH ROMAN ALTARS ON LAWN WEST OF ROKEBY PARK

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1160901
Date first listed:: 28-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: PLATFORM WITH ROMAN ALTARS ON LAWN WEST OF ROKEBY PARK
Statutory Address 1:: PLATFORM WITH ROMAN ALTARS ON LAWN WEST OF ROKEBY PARK

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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

Location

Statutory Address:: PLATFORM WITH ROMAN ALTARS ON LAWN WEST OF ROKEBY PARK

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

District:: County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Rokeby
National Grid Reference:: NZ 08233 14184

Details

NZ 0814 ROKEBY ROKEBY PARK

13/146 Platform with Roman altars on lawn west of Rokeby Park

GV II

Platform, C18, with Roman altars. Squared stone paved platform with step to south; enclosed by flat-coped dwarf wall carrying 5 Roman altars (south- eastern has legible inscription; dedication to Mars, set up by Enemnogenus), along with other Roman and medieval fragments.

Mars altar probably brought from Birdoswald.

Collingwood & Wright, Roman Inscriptions of Britain (1965) p.250 No. 742.

Listing NGR: NZ0823314184

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 111736
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Collingwood, R G, Wright, R P, Roman Inscriptions of Britain, (1965), 250

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.