Covell Cross
COVELL CROSS, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1290496
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Covell Cross
- Statutory Address:
- COVELL CROSS, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1290496
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Covell Cross
- Statutory Address 1:
- COVELL CROSS, CHURCH STREET
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:
- COVELL CROSS, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Lancaster (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 47495 61870
Details
LANCASTER
SD4761NW CHURCH STREET 1685-1/6/93 (West side) Covell Cross
GV II
Commemorative cross. 1903. By Austin and Paley. To celebrate the coronation of King Edward VII in 1902. Sandstone ashlar. A tapering square shaft on an octagonal plinth on an octagonal stepped base. The plinth has sunk panels on each face with, on the south, a shield bearing the Royal coat-of-arms, on the north those of the Borough of Lancaster, on the west the Lancashire rose, and on the east an explanatory inscription. The cross shaft has a panelled base which rises in the centre; the shaft itself has half-round mouldings worked on the edges and panels of arabesque on the east and west faces. The cross-head, which has panels of leaves carved on the east and west faces, has rounded ends to the arms and concave quadrants between them.
Listing NGR: SD4749561869
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383125
- 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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