OLD CROSS IN THE CHURCHYARD AT JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH

OLD CROSS IN THE CHURCHYARD AT JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1219284
Date first listed:: 22-Nov-1993
List Entry Name:: OLD CROSS IN THE CHURCHYARD AT JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH
Statutory Address:: OLD CROSS IN THE CHURCHYARD AT JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH, CHURCH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1219284
Date first listed:: 22-Nov-1993
List Entry Name:: OLD CROSS IN THE CHURCHYARD AT JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH
Statutory Address 1:: OLD CROSS IN THE CHURCHYARD AT JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH, 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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Location

Statutory Address:: OLD CROSS IN THE CHURCHYARD AT JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH, CHURCH STREET

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

District:: Isle of Wight (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Niton and Whitwell
National Grid Reference:: SZ 50526 76741

Details

NITON AND WHITWELL

SZ5076 CHURCH STREET, Niton 1353-0/8/252 Old Cross in the Churchyard at John the Baptist Church

GV II

Remains of mediaeval churchyard cross. C15. 4 stone steps with stone Celtic cross of 1865 added above. Contracts were signed and declarations were made on the cross steps. In the Registers of 1718 the Rector is recorded as making "a declaration at the cross before the Church where the cows are milked". A fish market is said to have been held there at a time when the land was the village green not a burial ground.

Listing NGR: SZ5052676741

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Legacy System number:: 392809
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.