REMAINS OF MARKET CROSS INSIDE NUMBER 19

REMAINS OF MARKET CROSS INSIDE NUMBER 19, 19, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1284135
Date first listed:: 22-Apr-1950
List Entry Name:: REMAINS OF MARKET CROSS INSIDE NUMBER 19
Statutory Address:: REMAINS OF MARKET CROSS INSIDE NUMBER 19, 19, CHURCH STREET

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Date:: 2001-05-04
Reference:: IOE01/04034/25
Rights:: © Mr Anthony J Felmingham. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1284135
Date first listed:: 22-Apr-1950
Date of most recent amendment:: 06-Dec-1985
List Entry Name:: REMAINS OF MARKET CROSS INSIDE NUMBER 19
Statutory Address 1:: REMAINS OF MARKET CROSS INSIDE NUMBER 19, 19, CHURCH STREET

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:: REMAINS OF MARKET CROSS INSIDE NUMBER 19, 19, CHURCH STREET

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

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: Vale of White Horse (District Authority)
Parish:: Wantage
National Grid Reference:: SU 39708 87830

Details

WANTAGE CHURCH STREET SU3987NE (South side) 9/69 Remains of Market Cross inside 22/04/50 No.19 (Formerly listed as ... to S of front door of St.Gabriel's House (now inside UDC offices))

- II

Market Cross. Late C16. Limestone. Octagonal with domical capping; each face has weathered figures of saints in niches. Noted as being of considerable local importance. Formerly sited to south of front door of St. Gabriel's House, Newbury Street, and then inside Urban District Council Offices, Portway, from whence removed to its present position in the Vale and Downland Museum Centre. (VCH: Berkshire, Vol IV, p.320; Buildings of England, Berkshire, p.254)

Listing NGR: SU3970887830

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Legacy System number:: 251164
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1924), 320
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 254

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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.