MARKET CROSS 56 METRES NORTH OF TOWN HALL

MARKET CROSS 56 METRES NORTH OF TOWN HALL, MARKET SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1192024
Date first listed:: 23-Sep-1950
List Entry Name:: MARKET CROSS 56 METRES NORTH OF TOWN HALL
Statutory Address:: MARKET CROSS 56 METRES NORTH OF TOWN HALL, MARKET SQUARE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1192024
Date first listed:: 23-Sep-1950
Date of most recent amendment:: 17-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:: MARKET CROSS 56 METRES NORTH OF TOWN HALL
Statutory Address 1:: MARKET CROSS 56 METRES NORTH OF TOWN HALL, MARKET SQUARE

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:: MARKET CROSS 56 METRES NORTH OF TOWN HALL, MARKET SQUARE

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

District:: North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Higham Ferrers
National Grid Reference:: SP 96041 68497

Details

HIGHAM FERRERS MARKET SQUARE SP9668SW (East side) 20/62 Market Cross 56m. N of Town 23/09/50 Hall (Formerly listed as Market Cross) GV I

Market Cross. Probably C14. Squared coursed limestone and ironstone and limestone ashlar. Conical base with one step. Octagonal ashlar shaft with ballflower decoration to capital. Iron frame similar to tripod links base and shafts. The conical base replaced the original steps. Scheduled as an ancient monument. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p.256).

Listing NGR: SP9604168497

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Legacy System number:: 232362
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, (1973), 256

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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.