THE ADELAIDE CROSS ON THE GREEN IN FRONT OF THE MANOR HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1174653
Date first listed:: 02-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:: THE ADELAIDE CROSS ON THE GREEN IN FRONT OF THE MANOR HOUSE
Statutory Address:: THE ADELAIDE CROSS ON THE GREEN IN FRONT OF THE MANOR HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1174653
Date first listed:: 02-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:: THE ADELAIDE CROSS ON THE GREEN IN FRONT OF THE MANOR HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: THE ADELAIDE CROSS ON THE GREEN IN FRONT OF THE MANOR HOUSE

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:: THE ADELAIDE CROSS ON THE GREEN IN FRONT OF THE MANOR HOUSE

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: Dacorum (District Authority)
Parish:: Little Gaddesden
National Grid Reference:: SP9966812869

Details

LITTLE GADDESDEN LITTLE GADDESDEN SP 91 SE (East side) 1/197 The Adelaide Cross - on The Green in front of the Manor House

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Monumental cross. Circa 1917 for Lord Brownlow. Limestone monument raised on a grassed mound approached by a flight of 6 stone steps with low chamfered side walls. A tall tapering chamfered cross on a chamfered square plinth on an octagonal inscribed step on an octagonal base in the form of a stone seat with recessed chamfered plinth, about 7m high overall. The shaft of the cross formed from 2 stones. Inscribed 'IN REMEMBRANCE OF ADELAIDE WIFE OF ADELBERT 3RD EARL BROWNLOW BORN 1844 MARRIED 1868 DIED 1917 DAUGHTER OF HENRY 18TH EARL OF SHREWSBURY & TALBOT' and at base 'MERCY AND PEACE HAVE KISSED EACH OTHER'. An important landscape feature seen along a vista from the porch of Ashridge House, q.v. (Senar(1983)97).

Listing NGR: SP9966812869

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Legacy System number:: 157728
Legacy System:: LBS

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Senar, H, Little Gaddesden and Ashridge, (1983), 97

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