SUNDIAL APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES EAST OF THE DITCHES HALL

SUNDIAL APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES EAST OF THE DITCHES HALL, B5063

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1236569
Date first listed:: 16-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: SUNDIAL APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES EAST OF THE DITCHES HALL
Statutory Address:: SUNDIAL APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES EAST OF THE DITCHES HALL, B5063

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1236569
Date first listed:: 16-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: SUNDIAL APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES EAST OF THE DITCHES HALL
Statutory Address 1:: SUNDIAL APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES EAST OF THE DITCHES HALL, B5063

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: SUNDIAL APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES EAST OF THE DITCHES HALL, B5063

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

District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Wem Rural
National Grid Reference:: SJ 49638 29351

Details

WEM RURAL C.P. B 5063 (south side) SJ 42 NE 10/127 Sundial approx. - 15m east of The Ditches Hall GV II Sundial. Probably mid-C18. Sandstone. Vase-shaped baluster with moulded plinth and ornamental capping; leaf decoration to bottom and festooned garland above. Later circular top has lead and brass plate inscribed "1LET NOT6/THE SUN GO/DOWN UPON THY/1WRATH4", although the lettering looks later than the date indicated. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SJ4963829351

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 427507
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.