Remains of Wayside Cross
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1263435
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Remains of Wayside Cross
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1263435
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Remains of Wayside Cross
- Location Description:
- Land west of St Hilda's Church, Headland, Hartlepool at NZ 52790 33700
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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
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- District:
- Hartlepool (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Headland
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ5279033701
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 31/03/2014
NZ 5032
10/60
HARTLEPOOL,
Remains of wayside cross
(Formerly listed as Remains of wayside cross, 35m to east of Gray Art Gallery and Museum, CLARENCE ROAD (west side))
II
Remains of a medieval wayside cross. Dressed limestone. Square cross base with chamfered top, set at the top of three steps. Reported to have been discovered in 1917 "on the north side of the road westward of Low Warren Farm, Hartlepool, near a railway arch" at approximately NZ 5087 3483. Relocated to NZ 50928 32720 into the grounds of the Gray Art Gallery and Museum, Clarence Road and then moved its current location just west of St Hilda's Church in 1997.
Listing NGR: NZ5279033701
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 432355
- 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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