Rey Cross
REY CROSS, A66
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1323025
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Rey Cross
- Statutory Address:
- REY CROSS, A66
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1323025
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Rey Cross
- Statutory Address 1:
- REY CROSS, A66
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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:
- REY CROSS, A66
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bowes
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 90471 12284
Details
BOWES A66 NY 81 SE and NY 91 SW (South side)
17/9 and 18/9 Rey Cross II*
Base and fragment of cross shaft. Probably C10. Sandstone. Wrongly shown on both OS map sheets. Badly-worn, 1.0-metre tall fragment of rectangular-plan cross shaft on a worn square-plan base. Inscriptions on shaft no longer legible.
Rey or Rere Cross is believed to have been erected by King Edwin of Northumbria (died 946) to mark the boundary of his Kingdom and the Scottish Kingdom of Strathclyde. Eric Bloodaxe, the last Viking King, was killed at Rey Cross in 945 so marking the end of Viking rule in Northern England.
Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Listing NGR: NY9047112284
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111166
- 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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