Base of Cross at Junction With B3151
BASE OF CROSS AT JUNCTION WITH B3151, COMPTON STREET
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Overview
- 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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- Reference:
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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 1:
- BASE OF CROSS AT JUNCTION WITH B3151, COMPTON STREET
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 262865
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pooley, C, An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Old Stone Crosses of Somerset, (1877)
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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