Cross Base North West of Lanercost Priory
CROSS BASE NORTH WEST OF LANERCOST PRIORY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1335637
- Date first listed:
- 01-Apr-1957
- List Entry Name:
- Cross Base North West of Lanercost Priory
- Statutory Address:
- CROSS BASE NORTH WEST OF LANERCOST PRIORY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1335637
- Date first listed:
- 01-Apr-1957
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Cross Base North West of Lanercost Priory
- Statutory Address 1:
- CROSS BASE NORTH WEST OF LANERCOST PRIORY
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 BASE NORTH WEST OF LANERCOST PRIORY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Burtholme
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 55575 63753
Details
NY 56 SE BURTHOLME LANERCOST
31/55 Cross base north-west of Lanercost Priory (previously listed under Lanercost Priory
1.4.57 I
Priory Cross. Dated 1214. Carved red sandstone. Stepped plinth, chamfered square socket stone and fragment of shaft with carved decoration to edges, much weathered. The remainder of the shaft, with its cross head missing, was used as a gravestone in 1657 and when the nave was reroofed in the early C18, it was taken inside where it can be seen in the north aisle. Latin inscription translates: In the 1214th year from the Incarnation and the seventh year of the Interdict, Innocent III holding the Apostolic See, Otto being Emperor in Germany, Philip of France, John King of England and William King of Scotland, this Cross was made. See John R.H. Moorman, Lanercost Priory, 1983, pp16-17.
Listing NGR: NY5557563753
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 78139
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Moorman, JRH, Lanercost Priory, (1983), 16-17
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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