The Market Cross
THE MARKET CROSS, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1177350
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1959
- List Entry Name:
- The Market Cross
- Statutory Address:
- THE MARKET CROSS, MARKET PLACE
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- Date:
- 2002-09-24
- Reference:
- IOE01/08935/05
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1177350
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1959
- List Entry Name:
- The Market Cross
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MARKET CROSS, MARKET PLACE
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 MARKET CROSS, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Somerton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 49058 28538
Details
ST49NW SOMERTON CP MARKET PLACE
9/159 The Market Cross
17.4.59
GV II*
Market Cross. Rebuilt 1673, with repairs in 1925, 1950 and 1983. Local lias stone cut and squared, with Ham stone dressings; multi-hipped conoid stone slate roof with stone ball finial surmounted by metal cross. Octagonal plan. Keinton stone slab base, up one step; central octagonal shaft with 3 step base and top corbelled to support roof timbers; to outer face each bay a segmental voussoired arch with lias imposts and Ham keystone, with angled offset buttresses each corner to impost height; above, a string course with corner gargoyles and battlemented parapet. Most important element in street scene. There has been a cross on this site since at least 1390: this cross owned by Lord Ilchester was sold to the town in 1916. Scheduled Ancient Monument (Somerset County No 18). (VCH, Volume III, 1974; Pooley, Old Crosses of Somerset, 1877).
Listing NGR: ST4906128538
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 262965
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1974)
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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