CROSS AT JUNCTION WITH BELL LANE AND A48

CROSS AT JUNCTION WITH BELL LANE AND A48, A48

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1186543
Date first listed:: 04-Jul-1985
List Entry Name:: CROSS AT JUNCTION WITH BELL LANE AND A48
Statutory Address:: CROSS AT JUNCTION WITH BELL LANE AND A48, A48

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1186543
Date first listed:: 04-Jul-1985
List Entry Name:: CROSS AT JUNCTION WITH BELL LANE AND A48
Statutory Address 1:: CROSS AT JUNCTION WITH BELL LANE AND A48, A48
Statutory Address 2:: CROSS AT JUNCTION WITH BELL LANE AND A48, BELL LANE

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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Location

Statutory Address:: CROSS AT JUNCTION WITH BELL LANE AND A48, A48
Statutory Address:: CROSS AT JUNCTION WITH BELL LANE AND A48, BELL LANE

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Forest of Dean (District Authority)
Parish:: Westbury-on-Severn
National Grid Reference:: SO 71696 14017

Details

SO 71 SW WESTBURY-ON-SEVERN WESTBURY VILLAGE

11/214 Cross, at junction of Bell Lane and A48

GV II

Cross; 1887 (carved on head); ashlar stone. Tall Cross on square, stepped base. Bottom step has projecting top with hollow chamfer beneath; 2 plain steps above; above a reused medieval cross base, square, each side reduced in top half to less than half its width, square set-back north and south, canted east and west, with sloping base to cut out. This carries a tall tapering stone shaft, reducing quickly from square to octagon. At top a square head, oversails shaft: corner pilaster originally with finials (only one survives), gables to each face with cross roof between, shield on each face, 2 inscribed 1887, 2 IHS; above a stone cross with floriate ends to arms, and a semi-circle linking arms and stem below. Forms group with church and churchyard memorials, (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SO7169614017

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Legacy System number:: 354295
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.