The Poultry Cross
THE POULTRY CROSS, SILVER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1243148
- Date first listed:
- 28-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Poultry Cross
- Statutory Address:
- THE POULTRY CROSS, SILVER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1243148
- Date first listed:
- 28-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Poultry Cross
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE POULTRY CROSS, SILVER 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:
- THE POULTRY CROSS, SILVER STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Salisbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 14380 29956
Details
SILVER STREET 1. 1594 (North Side) The Poultry Cross SU 1429 NW 3/327 28.2.52. I GV 2. Standing at the Junction of Minster and Silver Streets. C14. Hexagonal open arched shelter with buttressed piers enriched with carved and panelled pinnacles. The arches are flat segmental shaped and moulded with drip turned up in a point over centre rind under base of a carved and pinnacled niche. A central stone shaft with a stone seat round at the base, is carried up through a lead roof and originally finished with a sundial block. Some enthusiastic stonemason of local importance and envious of a similar cross at Chichester, added a series of flying buttresses meeting in the centre and covering the sundial and topped with a hexagonal block with a niche on each face, crowned with a pinnacle and cross. All the upper addition is C19 though well done of its kind. The cross was originally surrounded by a square of stone seats which have now been removed. Drawings exist in the Museum showing original state. AM.
The Poultry Cross and Nos 36 to 52 (even) form a group. No 36 forms a group with Nos 1 to 17 (odd) Minster Street qv the rear elevations of which form a group with those of Nos 36 to 52 (even) and with St Thomas's Church, St Thomas's Square qv.
Listing NGR: SU1438029956
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 446674
- 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.
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