Remains of White Cross in Garden of Number 15 (Peckover House)

REMAINS OF WHITE CROSS IN GARDEN OF NUMBER 15 (PECKOVER HOUSE), NORTH BRINK

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1331633
Date first listed:
10-Feb-1969
Statutory Address:
REMAINS OF WHITE CROSS IN GARDEN OF NUMBER 15 (PECKOVER HOUSE), NORTH BRINK
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1331633
Date first listed:
10-Feb-1969
Statutory Address 1:
REMAINS OF WHITE CROSS IN GARDEN OF NUMBER 15 (PECKOVER HOUSE), NORTH BRINK

Location

Statutory Address:
REMAINS OF WHITE CROSS IN GARDEN OF NUMBER 15 (PECKOVER HOUSE), NORTH BRINK

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

County:
Cambridgeshire
District:
Fenland (District Authority)
Parish:
Wisbech
National Grid Reference:
TF 45768 09637

Details

The following previous listing date shall be added.

Page 70 Item number 5/159 10.2.69

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WISBECH NORTH BRINK TF 4509 5/159 Remains of White Cross in garden of No. 15 (Peckover House) GV II

Mediaeval shaft of cross. Barnack stone chamfered and stopped with weathered carving, mounted on modern plinth inscribed 'White Cross of the Low'. The remains were dredged from the river and once stood at The Low until the Reformation. Gardiner, History of Wisbech, p.35, 1898. VCH Cambs, p.242.

Listing NGR: TF4576809637

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Sources

Books and journals
Gardiner, F J, History of Wisbech and Neighbourhood, (1898), 35
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1953), 242

Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 5 Cambridgeshire,

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