Village Cross (At Corner of Rea Lane)
VILLAGE CROSS (AT CORNER OF REA LANE), ST SWITHUNS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1271745
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Village Cross (At Corner of Rea Lane)
- Statutory Address:
- VILLAGE CROSS (AT CORNER OF REA LANE), ST SWITHUNS ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1271745
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Dec-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Village Cross (At Corner of Rea Lane)
- Statutory Address 1:
- VILLAGE CROSS (AT CORNER OF REA LANE), ST SWITHUNS 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:
- VILLAGE CROSS (AT CORNER OF REA LANE), ST SWITHUNS ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Gloucester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 81467 16949
Details
GLOUCESTER
SO81NW ST SWITHUN'S ROAD, Hempsted 844-1/3/455 (South side) 10/01/55 Village Cross (at corner of Rea Lane) (Formerly Listed as: ST SWITHUN'S ROAD, Hempstead Cross in Village (at corner of Rea Lane))
GV II*
Village cross. Early C15. Dressed stone shaft of a cross found buried in the churchyard of the Church of St Swithun, Hempsted (qv), by Canon Samuel Lysons in 1839. The shaft, with a short upper part added to it and the cross carved at his direction, was erected c1850 for Lysons on a stepped base on the present site. EXTERIOR: square base of two steps of dressed stone blocks laid on a C20 bottom step of rubble, and an upper, inset, plinth block, probably medieval, with a badly weathered chamfer; dowelled into the top of the plinth block the slender, medieval shaft with chamfered angles broached at the bottom; the C19 addition to the shaft surmounted by carved Celtic cross. The medieval shaft is believed to be from a cross erected with money donated by William Franklin in 1417 before he set out on a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostella. Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Listing NGR: SO8146716949
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 472461
- 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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