CHURCHYARD CROSS, IN THE CHURCHYARD ABOUT 9 METRES SOUTH OF SOUTH AISLE, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS

CHURCHYARD CROSS, IN THE CHURCHYARD ABOUT 9 METRES SOUTH OF SOUTH AISLE, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1175863
Date first listed:: 17-Oct-1985
List Entry Name:: CHURCHYARD CROSS, IN THE CHURCHYARD ABOUT 9 METRES SOUTH OF SOUTH AISLE, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
Statutory Address:: CHURCHYARD CROSS, IN THE CHURCHYARD ABOUT 9 METRES SOUTH OF SOUTH AISLE, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, CHURCH LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1175863
Date first listed:: 17-Oct-1985
List Entry Name:: CHURCHYARD CROSS, IN THE CHURCHYARD ABOUT 9 METRES SOUTH OF SOUTH AISLE, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCHYARD CROSS, IN THE CHURCHYARD ABOUT 9 METRES SOUTH OF SOUTH AISLE, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, CHURCH LANE

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:: CHURCHYARD CROSS, IN THE CHURCHYARD ABOUT 9 METRES SOUTH OF SOUTH AISLE, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, CHURCH LANE

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: West Pennard
National Grid Reference:: ST 55228 38251

Details

WEST PENNARD CP CHURCH LAKE (North side) ST53NE

7/205 Churchyard cross, in the churchyard about 9 metres south of south aisle, Church of St Nicholas

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Churchyard cross. Circa 1493-1524 by Abbot Richard Beere of Glastonbury. Dressed stone. Calvary of 4 octagonal steps, that at the base benched. The socket with a shaft on each corner; on the 4 sides sculptured reliefs of The Emblems of the Crucificion, also to north side raised letters:- "RB". Square tapering shaft, with a lesser shaft inset to each corner. Crowned by the remains of an octagonal abacus incorporating 4 angels. (Pooley, Old Crosses of Somerset, l877.)

Listing NGR: ST5522938251

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Legacy System number:: 267678
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Sources

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Pooley, C, An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Old Stone Crosses of Somerset, (1877)

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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.