The Grey Stone, Approximately 350 Metres South East of New Bridge
THE GREY STONE, APPROXIMATELY 350 METRES SOUTH EAST OF NEW BRIDGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1226199
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Grey Stone, Approximately 350 Metres South East of New Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- THE GREY STONE, APPROXIMATELY 350 METRES SOUTH EAST OF NEW BRIDGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1226199
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Grey Stone, Approximately 350 Metres South East of New Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GREY STONE, APPROXIMATELY 350 METRES SOUTH EAST OF NEW BRIDGE
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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.
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:
- THE GREY STONE, APPROXIMATELY 350 METRES SOUTH EAST OF NEW BRIDGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Harewood
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 31478 43085
Details
HAREWOOD HAREWOOD PARK SE34SW LS17 SE31 4431 The Grey Stone, 6/78 approx. 350m south-east of New Bridge
II
Ancient meeting stone. Perhaps Prehistoric. Huge gritstone boulder roughly octagonal with a pointed top. In its north face is a good example of a cup- and-ring mark - 4 concentric circles with wider central circle in which are several smaller circles surrounding the central boss, much the same in design as a Celtic shield. It is on a promentary some 350m above sea level directly opposite from Harewood House (q.v.) and within site of Great Armscliffe Crag at a similar height. Worked flints and an axe have been found near the stone and Professor Stuart Piggot (Cambridge) considers the incisions on the stone belong to the same period as the finds i.e. 2000-1500 BC. This stone is significant in that it may be from it that the name Harewood is derived. Professor Eilert Ekwall (editor of the Oxford Dictionary of English Place Names) in correspondence with Mrs. S. E. Finlay (recorded at County S.M.R.) thinks it probable that Harewood is "Grey Stones Wood". Old English "Harawuda" would then be elliptical for "Hara-stanes-wudu", or "Wood by the stones". The first spelling for Harewood was "Harawuda" and first given in the C10. County Sites and Monuments Record (Wakefield).
Listing NGR: SE3147843085
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 422873
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 45 West Yorkshire,
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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