Butter Cross
BUTTER CROSS, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1275987
- Date first listed:
- 09-May-1949
- Statutory Address:
- BUTTER CROSS, MARKET PLACE
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- Date:
- 2002-06-25
- Reference:
- IOE01/07869/31
- Rights:
- © Mr David Ward. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1275987
- Date first listed:
- 09-May-1949
- Statutory Address 1:
- BUTTER CROSS, MARKET PLACE
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BUTTER CROSS, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bungay
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 33636 89773
Details
1. 924 MARKET PLACE ------------ Butter Cross TM 3389 1/77 9.5.49.
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2. 1689. Octagonal on plan, with lead covered dome roof, wood pedestal supporting a lead figure of justice weighing 18 cwt, added in 1754. The columns are now supported on stone plinths but originally the area of the cross was raised on steps, the columns resting on wood bases, and in the centre was a prisoner's cage for temporary detention of delinquents, which was removed in 1836, the steps being done away with in 1867, when an earlier dungeon was discovered underneath, said to be the remains of the earlier cross destroyed by the fire of 1688. Scheduled AM.
Nos 1 to 11 (odd), Nos 11A, 13 and 17 to 21 (odd) form a group together with the butter cross.
Listing NGR: TM3363689773
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 410703
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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