Remains of Market Cross About 30 Yards South West of Well Cottage
REMAINS OF MARKET CROSS ABOUT 30 YARDS SOUTH WEST OF WELL COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1179784
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Remains of Market Cross About 30 Yards South West of Well Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- REMAINS OF MARKET CROSS ABOUT 30 YARDS SOUTH WEST OF WELL COTTAGE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/06080/07
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1179784
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Remains of Market Cross About 30 Yards South West of Well Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- REMAINS OF MARKET CROSS ABOUT 30 YARDS SOUTH WEST OF WELL COTTAGE
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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.
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:
- REMAINS OF MARKET CROSS ABOUT 30 YARDS SOUTH WEST OF WELL COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bodenham
- National Grid Reference:
- SO5303151129
Details
BODENHAM CP BODENHAM
SO 55 SW
5/27
11.6.59
Remains of Market
Cross about 30 yards
south-west of
Well Cottage
GV II
Remains of market cross. Probably late C14. Sandstone ashlar. Square
base with chamfered upper section forming octagonal upper face. From the
centre projects the stump of the broken cross shaft. The base is set on
an old millstone. Sir Walter Devereux was granted a licence for a market
in Bodenham in 1379. (RCHM Herefs II, p 14, item 2; BoE, p 77).
Listing NGR: SO5303151129
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 149590
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire II East, (1932), 14
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 77
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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