THE CROSS ON GIBBET HILL

THE CROSS ON GIBBET HILL, LONDON HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1260847
Date first listed:: 09-Mar-1960
List Entry Name:: THE CROSS ON GIBBET HILL
Statutory Address:: THE CROSS ON GIBBET HILL, LONDON HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1260847
Date first listed:: 09-Mar-1960
List Entry Name:: THE CROSS ON GIBBET HILL
Statutory Address 1:: THE CROSS ON GIBBET HILL, LONDON HILL

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:: THE CROSS ON GIBBET HILL, LONDON HILL

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

County:: Surrey
District:: Waverley (District Authority)
Parish:: Thursley
National Grid Reference:: SU 89949 35937

Details

SU 83NE THURSLEY C.P. LONDON ROAD Hindhead

7/213 The Cross on 9/3/60 Gibbet Hill

II

Celtic Cross. Erected in 1851 by Sir William Erle, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, at a period when the Gibbet stone had been removed from its original position. Cornish granite cross on conglomerate base. Tapering shaft, approx 8 foot high with round cross top. Scroll carving on base at front. Inscribed: "POST TENEBRAS LUX" and "POST OBITUM SAWS", "IN OBITU PAX" and "IN LUC SPEC".

Listing NGR: SU8994935937

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Legacy System number:: 439320
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.