Cross to South of Church of St Hugo
CROSS TO SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST HUGO
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1329439
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Cross to South of Church of St Hugo
- Statutory Address:
- CROSS TO SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST HUGO
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1329439
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Cross to South of Church of St Hugo
- Statutory Address 1:
- CROSS TO SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST HUGO
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:
- CROSS TO SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST HUGO
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Quethiock
- National Grid Reference:
- SX3129764716
Details
SX 36 SW QUETHIOCK QUETHIOCK
12/133 Cross to south of church of
St Hugo
23.1.68
GV II*
Churchyard cross. Hiberno-Saxon type. Granite. Round base, 4 foot 6 inches in
diameter with 14 foot shaft, rectangular in plan and slightly tapered. Shaft divided
into 3 panels and carved with 4-cord, double beaded, angular plaitwork. Eroded.
Sides of shaft with continuous panel of foliated scrollwork. Wheal head cross with
cusps in openings. Cusping framed by round rolls. (cf cross at Pencarrony
Egloshale; at St Breward; St Columb Major and Prideaux Place, Padstow).
Mortice and tenon joints between wheel-head and shaft and between lower and middle
panels of shaft.
Re-erected in 1882. The base and head had been buried and the shaft broken in 2 and
used as gate posts.
With the exception of the cross in Mylor churchyard the cross at Quethiock is the
tallest in Cornwall.
A. Henwood The Parish Church of Quethiock
A. G. Langdon Old Cornish Crosses 1896
N. Pevsner and E. Radcliffe The Buildings of England, Cornwall, 2nd ed. 1980.
Listing NGR: SX3129764716
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 61332
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Henwood, D A, The Parish Church of Quethiock, (1970)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, (1970)
Polsue, J, Lakes Parochial History of the County of Cornwall, (1872)
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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