Market Cross
Market Cross, Bath Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1173642
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1961
- Statutory Address:
- Market Cross, Bath Street
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- Date:
- 1999-10-31
- Reference:
- IOE01/01539/29
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1173642
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1961
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Jan-1985
- Statutory Address 1:
- Market Cross, Bath Street
- Statutory Address 2:
- Market Cross, Church Street
- Statutory Address 3:
- Market Cross, Union Street
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Market Cross, Bath Street
- Statutory Address:
- Market Cross, Church Street
- Statutory Address:
- Market Cross, Union Street
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cheddar
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 45921 53202
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 14/04/2020
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CHEDDAR CP
CHURCH STREET (East side)
Market Cross
9.2.61
GV
II*
Market cross. C15, shelter rebuilt 1834. Ashlar, wood-framed roof to shelter. Central octagonal pier, socket raised on three steps, hexagonal shelter with six arched four-centred arch openings, shallow two stage buttresses at each angle, embattled
parapet. Shaft crowned by an abacus with figures in niches, probably late C19; cross missing. Rebuilt by Thomas, Marquis of Bath.
Scheduled Ancient Monument (Somerset County No 21).
Listing NGR: ST4592053201
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 268772
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pooley, C, An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Old Stone Crosses of Somerset, (1877)
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