BASE OF CROSS AT JUNCTION WITH B3151

BASE OF CROSS AT JUNCTION WITH B3151, COMPTON STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1176697
Date first listed:: 17-Apr-1959
List Entry Name:: BASE OF CROSS AT JUNCTION WITH B3151
Statutory Address:: BASE OF CROSS AT JUNCTION WITH B3151, COMPTON STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1176697
Date first listed:: 17-Apr-1959
List Entry Name:: BASE OF CROSS AT JUNCTION WITH B3151
Statutory Address 1:: BASE OF CROSS AT JUNCTION WITH B3151, COMPTON STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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:: BASE OF CROSS AT JUNCTION WITH B3151, COMPTON STREET

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Compton Dundon
National Grid Reference:: ST4894632887

Details

ST43SE COMPTON DUNDON CP COMPTON STREET (south side) COMPTON

1/60 Base of Cross at junction with B3151 17.4.59

- II

Base of Wayside Cross. Probably C14. Ham stone. Two C20 circular stone steps of 2 metres and 1.5 metres diameter, both 300mm high, replacing four earlier steps; fragment of a circular top step survives, about 1 metre diameter and 175mm high, above is the socket, about 700mm square by 250mm high, the corners deeply broached: only about 300mm of shaft survives, the remainder destroyed 'by some people in a drunken frolic' some time before 1877 (Pooley, Old Crosses of Somerset, 1877).

Listing NGR: ST4894632887

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Legacy System number:: 262865
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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.