MILESTONE IN EAST WALL OF CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 4 METRES SOUTH OF LYCH GATE, CHURCH OF ST STEPHEN

MILESTONE IN EAST WALL OF CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 4 METRES SOUTH OF LYCH GATE, CHURCH OF ST STEPHEN, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1177805
Date first listed:: 30-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:: MILESTONE IN EAST WALL OF CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 4 METRES SOUTH OF LYCH GATE, CHURCH OF ST STEPHEN
Statutory Address:: MILESTONE IN EAST WALL OF CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 4 METRES SOUTH OF LYCH GATE, CHURCH OF ST STEPHEN, CHURCH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1177805
Date first listed:: 30-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:: MILESTONE IN EAST WALL OF CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 4 METRES SOUTH OF LYCH GATE, CHURCH OF ST STEPHEN
Statutory Address 1:: MILESTONE IN EAST WALL OF CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 4 METRES SOUTH OF LYCH GATE, CHURCH OF ST STEPHEN, CHURCH STREET

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: MILESTONE IN EAST WALL OF CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 4 METRES SOUTH OF LYCH GATE, CHURCH OF ST STEPHEN, CHURCH STREET

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Winsham
National Grid Reference:: ST3749506270

Details

WINSHAM CP CHURCH STREET (West side) ST30NE 4/96 Milestone in east wall of churchyard, about 4m south of lych gate, Church of St Stephen -

GV II

Milestone. Probably C19. Painted Ham stone about 300mm wide x 750mm high, with rounded top, set flush into wall; stone inscribed 'Chard/4'. This road, from Chard to Greenham in Dorset, was turnpiked by the Chard Trust in 1829. (Bentley J.B and Murless B.J, Somerset Roads, SIAS, 1985)

Listing NGR: ST3749506270

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Legacy System number:: 262220
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Bentley, J B, Murless, B J , Somerset Roads: The Legacy of the Turnpikes Western Somerset, (1985)

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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.