STONE CROSS APPROXIMATELY 8 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST SWITHUN

STONE CROSS APPROXIMATELY 8 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST SWITHUN, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1258907
Date first listed:: 26-Aug-1965
List Entry Name:: STONE CROSS APPROXIMATELY 8 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST SWITHUN
Statutory Address:: STONE CROSS APPROXIMATELY 8 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST SWITHUN, CHURCH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1258907
Date first listed:: 26-Aug-1965
List Entry Name:: STONE CROSS APPROXIMATELY 8 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST SWITHUN
Statutory Address 1:: STONE CROSS APPROXIMATELY 8 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST SWITHUN, CHURCH STREET

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:: STONE CROSS APPROXIMATELY 8 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST SWITHUN, CHURCH STREET

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

County:: Devon
District:: Mid Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Sandford
National Grid Reference:: SS8286302513

Details

SS 80 SW 3/221 26.8.65

SANDFORD CHURCH STREET (north side) Sandford Stone Cross approximately 8 metres south of Church of St Swithun

GV II*

Churchyard cross. Granite. C14-C15. Circa 3.25m high simple Type B cross on socket stone. Slightly tapering shaft in 2 parts is square in section with chamfered edges and broached stops. The arms are also chamfered shallow rectangular indent-between the arms. Large partly-buried square socket stone with chamfered corners and broached stops. Rare example of an intact late medieval cross. E.Masson-Phillips. Ancient stone crosses of Devon, Part 1. Trans.Devon.Assoc.69 (1937) p.294.

Listing NGR: SS8286302513

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Legacy System number:: 445835
Legacy System:: LBS

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'Transactions of the Devonshire Association' in Transactions of the Devonshire Association, (1937), 294

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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.