MARKET CROSS AND DRINKING FOUNTAIN

MARKET CROSS AND DRINKING FOUNTAIN, MARKET PLACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1329553
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1952
List Entry Name:: MARKET CROSS AND DRINKING FOUNTAIN
Statutory Address:: MARKET CROSS AND DRINKING FOUNTAIN, MARKET PLACE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1329553
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1952
List Entry Name:: MARKET CROSS AND DRINKING FOUNTAIN
Statutory Address 1:: MARKET CROSS AND DRINKING FOUNTAIN, MARKET PLACE

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:: MARKET CROSS AND DRINKING FOUNTAIN, MARKET PLACE

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

District:: Redcar and Cleveland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Guisborough
National Grid Reference:: NZ 61500 16042

Details

NZ6116 GUISBOROUGH MARKET PLACE (in middle of road)

7/114 Market Cross 14.6.52 and drinking fountain

II

Market cross. Mid C.18, altered in 1817. Tapered square sandstone shaft on moulded plinth on large, dressed sandstone pedestal. Capped with square stone block (with S., E.,and W. faces as sundials) supporting stone globe surmounted by wrought iron compass point and weather vane finial. Listing includes late C.19 drinking fountain attached to W. side of pedestal; pink granite.

(B.J.D. Harrison & G. Dixon 'Guisborough before 1900', 1981,pp.116/117 & 126).

Listing NGR: NZ6150016043

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Legacy System number:: 59975
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Harrison, B J D, Dixon, G, Guisborough Before 1900, (1981), 116-7 126

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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.