BASE OF MEDIEVAL CROSS

BASE OF MEDIEVAL CROSS, OUT RISBYGATE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1244801
Date first listed:: 12-Jul-1972
List Entry Name:: BASE OF MEDIEVAL CROSS
Statutory Address:: BASE OF MEDIEVAL CROSS, OUT RISBYGATE

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Date:: 2002-12-25
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1244801
Date first listed:: 12-Jul-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Oct-1997
List Entry Name:: BASE OF MEDIEVAL CROSS
Statutory Address 1:: BASE OF MEDIEVAL CROSS, OUT RISBYGATE

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:: BASE OF MEDIEVAL CROSS, OUT RISBYGATE

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

County:: Suffolk
District:: West Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Bury St. Edmunds
National Grid Reference:: TL 84420 64510

Details

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL86 OUT RISBYGATE 639-1/13/512 (North side) 12/07/72 Base of Medieval Cross (Formerly Listed as: RISBYGATE STREET (West side) Base of Medieval cross approximately 25 feet from the corner of Chalk Road)

II

The base of a medieval stone cross, previously sited in Risbygate Street, now resited in the grounds of the West Suffolk College of Further Education (not included). C13/C14. An octagonal moulded stone base with a socket hole which probably formed the lower part of the Risbygate Cross. This stood originally in Out Risbygate near the medieval Hospital of St Peter. The base was later known as the plague stone, and the hollow was thought to be filled with vinegar for disinfecting money during epidemics. (Statham M: The Book of Bury St Edmunds: Buckingham: 1988-: 11).

Listing NGR: TL8442064510

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Legacy System number:: 467052
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Statham, M, The Book of Bury St Edmunds, (1988), 11

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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.