Churchyard Cross in Churchyard of Church of St Catherine
CHURCHYARD CROSS IN CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST CATHERINE, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1236539
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Churchyard Cross in Churchyard of Church of St Catherine
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCHYARD CROSS IN CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST CATHERINE, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1236539
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Churchyard Cross in Churchyard of Church of St Catherine
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCHYARD CROSS IN CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST CATHERINE, CHURCH STREET
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.
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:
- CHURCHYARD CROSS IN CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST CATHERINE, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Drayton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 40518 24760
Details
ST4024 DRAYTON CP CHURCH STREET (North side)
7/20 Churchyard Cross in churchyard of Church of St. Catherine
17.4.59
GV II*
Churchyard cross. C15, recut and altered C17. Dressed stone. Base of 3 octagonal steps with dripmoulds, massive square socket with broaches and an octagonal upper bed; tapering shaft, square on plan, capped by a ball finial, cut down from its original height, south face enriched with a sculpture of St Michael with sword and shield in the act of vanquishing the Dragon. The figure stands under a canopied niche upon a bracket, which is supported by 2 small carved figures of priests in canonicals. (Pooley C, Old Crosses of Somerset, 1877; Pevsner N, Buildings of England, South and West Somerset, 1958).
Listing NGR: ST4051824758
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 264340
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South and West Somerset, (1958)
Pooley, C, An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Old Stone Crosses of Somerset, (1877)
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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