BASE OF FORMER BUTTER CROSS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1274582
Date first listed:: 12-Feb-1985
List Entry Name:: BASE OF FORMER BUTTER CROSS
Statutory Address:: BASE OF FORMER BUTTER CROSS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1274582
Date first listed:: 12-Feb-1985
List Entry Name:: BASE OF FORMER BUTTER CROSS
Statutory Address 1:: BASE OF FORMER BUTTER CROSS

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.

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

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:: BASE OF FORMER BUTTER CROSS

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Lancashire
District:: Burnley (District Authority)
Parish:: Habergham Eaves
National Grid Reference:: SD 82784 30522

Details

SD 83 SW

SD 827 305 HABERGHAM EAVES Base of former Butter Cross

4/1 - - II

Base of former cross, date uncertain but possibly late medieval. Roughly cubical stone block, half sunk in surface of field, with square housing for shaft in centre of upper surface. Item is now an isolated feature in field, but there is a hollow way passing on roughly north-south line c.20 metres to the west. Possibly associated with other ancient crosses in Burnley area (vide Bennett, History of Burnley). Said to have been Chartists' place of assembly in C19.

Listing NGR: SD8278430522

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 414828
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Bennett, W, The History of Burnley, (1969)
Bennett, W, The History of Burnley, (1969)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.