The Market Cross Also Known As the Pinnacle
THE MARKET CROSS ALSO KNOWN AS THE PINNACLE, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1266188
- Date first listed:
- 28-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Market Cross Also Known As the Pinnacle
- Statutory Address:
- THE MARKET CROSS ALSO KNOWN AS THE PINNACLE, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1266188
- Date first listed:
- 28-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Market Cross Also Known As the Pinnacle
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MARKET CROSS ALSO KNOWN AS THE PINNACLE, CHURCH 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 MARKET CROSS ALSO KNOWN AS THE PINNACLE, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Martock
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 46278 19281
Details
The Market Cross, etc. Church Street. 12/182 9/182
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The Market Cross, etc. Church Street. 12/182 9/182
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12/182 The Market Cross, also known as The Pinnacle 19.4.61
GV II
Market Cross. Medieval base, column dated 1741 all but plinth block entirely rebuilt in 1982. Ham stone ashlar, about 6 metres overall height. Circular base on circular step, with extra stones at cardinal points, then a square plinth block, stepped, supporting a fluted Tuscan column, said to have been copied from one at Wilton; on this a block with 4 sundial faces, one of which bears the 1741 date, with rod gnomons, surmounted by a ball finial crowned with a wrot-iron weathervane. The upper column thought to have been added by the then Lord of the Manor. (Pooley, Old Crosses of Somerset, 1872).
Listing NGR: ST4627819281
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 422268
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pooley, C, An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Old Stone Crosses of Somerset, (1877)
Pooley, C, An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Old Stone Crosses of Somerset, (1877)
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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