Saint Augustine's Cross
SAINT AUGUSTINE'S CROSS, COTTINGTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1266551
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Saint Augustine's Cross
- Statutory Address:
- SAINT AUGUSTINE'S CROSS, COTTINGTON ROAD
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- Date:
- 2001-09-27
- Reference:
- IOE01/03929/35
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1266551
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Saint Augustine's Cross
- Statutory Address 1:
- SAINT AUGUSTINE'S CROSS, COTTINGTON ROAD
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:
- SAINT AUGUSTINE'S CROSS, COTTINGTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Thanet (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Minster
- National Grid Reference:
- TR3403764157
Details
MINSTER COTTINGTON ROAD
TR36SW
(south side)
4/10005 St Augustine's Cross
- II
Commemorative cross. 1884, carved by J Roddis ofBirmingham and erected by Granville George
Leveson-Gower, the second Earl of Granville and Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, to
commemorate the landing of St Augustine in 597 AD at Ebbsfleet. Carved Celtic-style stone cross
about 7 metres high set on a stepped base. Tapering shaft has diaper pattern with carvings of
Archbishops, angels and beasts and is surmounted by a circular top with Celtic design. Tapering
plinth has Latin inscription referring to St Augustine having preached his first sermon on English
soil to King Ethelbert of Kent near this site.
Listing NGR: TR3403764157
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 421310
- 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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