The Apostles and attached rear rubble wall

The Apostles and attached rear rubble wall, 6, Market Cross, Malmesbury

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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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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

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: The Apostles and attached rear rubble wall, 6, Market Cross, Malmesbury

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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

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Legacy System number:: 460895
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Crowley, B A, The Victoria History of the County of Wiltshire, (1991), 134

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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.