The Apostles and attached rear rubble wall
The Apostles and attached rear rubble wall, 6, Market Cross, Malmesbury
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1269315
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1949
- List Entry Name:
- The Apostles and attached rear rubble wall
- Statutory Address:
- The Apostles and attached rear rubble wall, 6, Market Cross, Malmesbury
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1269315
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1949
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Jul-1996
- List Entry Name:
- The Apostles and attached rear rubble wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Apostles and attached rear rubble wall, 6, Market Cross, Malmesbury
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 Apostles and attached rear rubble wall, 6, Market Cross, Malmesbury
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Malmesbury
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 93291 87249
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 20 May 2024 to remove superfluous source details from text and to reformat the text to current standards
ST9387
758-1/4/238
MALMESBURY
MARKET CROSS (west side)
No.6 The Apostles and attached rear rubble wall
(Formerly Listed as: MARKET CROSS, (West side) No.6, The Apostle Spoon)
18/01/49
GV
II
Inn, now restaurant. Late C14 or C15, extended C20. Roughcast over limestone rubble, formerly with timber-framed jettied first floor, with left hand exterior gable and right hand ridge stacks and stone tiled roof.
EXTERIOR: two storeys and attic; four window range. Single-depth plan parallel to street, with full-length first floor chamber. The ground floor projects with a C20 front, shallow tiled roof and a central doorway; C20 leaded lattice casements. Four window rear has two casement dormers. East front (to right) has half-octagonal stair turret with loop window and remains of Gothic arch to former doorway.
INTERIOR: much structural alteration. Originally a jettied front of which the moulded bressumer support exists adjacent to the stairs, with an inner doorway in a moulded former window head and part ogee-headed niche to the right. First floor has stop-chamfered beams, jowl posts and a stone fireplace, and collar-truss roof with wind braces to lower register and butt purlins (repaired 1960s). The cellar has a semi-circular tunnel vault extending beneath the road, and a well.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached rear wall curves round rear area.
HISTORICAL NOTE: reputedly Hospitium to the Abbey, until 1924 the Green Dragon Inn. Said to be a blocked-in holy stoup, in which so-called Apostle Spoon was found and seen in living memory.
Listing NGR: ST9328887249
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 460895
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Crowley, B A, The Victoria History of the County of Wiltshire, (1991), 134
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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