The Adelaide Cross on the Green in Front of the Manor House
THE ADELAIDE CROSS ON THE GREEN IN FRONT OF THE MANOR HOUSE
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Overview
- 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
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
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
GV II
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157728
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Senar, H, Little Gaddesden and Ashridge, (1983), 97
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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