RUFUS STONE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1167431
Date first listed:: 08-Apr-1976
List Entry Name:: RUFUS STONE
Statutory Address:: RUFUS STONE

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Date:: 1999-08-26
Reference:: IOE01/01976/14
Rights:: © Mr Stuart Goodall. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1167431
Date first listed:: 08-Apr-1976
List Entry Name:: RUFUS STONE
Statutory Address 1:: RUFUS STONE

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:: RUFUS STONE

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

County:: Hampshire
District:: New Forest (District Authority)
Parish:: Minstead
National Park:: NEW FOREST
National Grid Reference:: SU 27019 12485

Details

SU 21 SE MINSTEAD UPPER CANTERTON

4/16 Rufus Stone 8.4.76 GV II

Monument commemorating death of King William II. 1745 by Earl De La Warr, encased 1841 by Sturges Bourne. Stone encased in cast iron. Standing tapering pillar of square section with raised rounded corners and top, inscriptions on each face. Erected on supposed spot of oak tree off which glanced arrow that killed William Rufus in 1100.

Listing NGR: SU2589111791

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 144426
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.