VILLAGE CROSS ABOUT 50 YARDS EAST OF THE CHURCH OF ST BARBARA

VILLAGE CROSS ABOUT 50 YARDS EAST OF THE CHURCH OF ST BARBARA, BECKFORD ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1167161
Date first listed:: 30-Jul-1959
List Entry Name:: VILLAGE CROSS ABOUT 50 YARDS EAST OF THE CHURCH OF ST BARBARA
Statutory Address:: VILLAGE CROSS ABOUT 50 YARDS EAST OF THE CHURCH OF ST BARBARA, BECKFORD ROAD

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Date:: 1999-08-21
Reference:: IOE01/00412/11
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1167161
Date first listed:: 30-Jul-1959
List Entry Name:: VILLAGE CROSS ABOUT 50 YARDS EAST OF THE CHURCH OF ST BARBARA
Statutory Address 1:: VILLAGE CROSS ABOUT 50 YARDS EAST OF THE CHURCH OF ST BARBARA, BECKFORD ROAD

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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Location

Statutory Address:: VILLAGE CROSS ABOUT 50 YARDS EAST OF THE CHURCH OF ST BARBARA, BECKFORD ROAD

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

County:: Worcestershire
District:: Wychavon (District Authority)
Parish:: Ashton under Hill
National Grid Reference:: SO 99750 37693

Details

ASHTON UNDER HILL CP BECKFORD ROAD (west side) SO 9837 - 9937 11/4 22/2 Village Cross about SO yards east of the Church of 30-7-59 St Barbara GV II

Village cross. C15. Limestone. Square three-stepped plinth on which stands a square base with chamfered upper edges. The cross shaft is octagonal and has a shield relief on the east side; it is complete apart from the very top which has been replaced by a sundial. The cross has survived in a good and almost unaltered condition and is prominently situated at the main southern approach to the village. (BoE, p 72).

Listing NGR: SO9975037693

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Legacy System number:: 148456
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 72

Legal

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