Market Cross
MARKET CROSS, THE SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1349040
- Date first listed:
- 21-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Market Cross
- Statutory Address:
- MARKET CROSS, THE SQUARE
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- Date:
- 2005-06-08
- Reference:
- IOE01/12675/20
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1349040
- Date first listed:
- 21-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Market Cross
- Statutory Address 1:
- MARKET CROSS, THE SQUARE
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:
- MARKET CROSS, THE SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Milnthorpe
- National Grid Reference:
- SD4975881493
Details
SD 48 SE
3/13
21.11.52
MILNTHORPE
THE SQUARE,
Milnthorpe
Market Cross
II
Market Cross. Shaft and base possibly C18, top probably C19 addition or repair.
Sandstone mounted on limestone steps. Single round shaft on octagonal base
surmounted by ball on octagonal corniced top. Set on 3 hexagonal steps. In 1823
there is reference to "the new cross", it was taken down in 1845 and re-erected on
top of a lock-up built on its site during the construction of the railway when there
was rioting locally. The lock-up was taken down in 1862 and the cross replaced on
the ground in its original position. Further information:
Curwen, J.F. History of Heversham with Milnthorpe, pub. Titus Wilson 1930.
Listing NGR: SD4975881493
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 75567
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Curwen, F, History of Heversham with Milnthorpe, (1930)
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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