Coughton Cross and Attached Railings
COUGHTON CROSS AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, BIRMINGHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355382
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Coughton Cross and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- COUGHTON CROSS AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, BIRMINGHAM ROAD
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- Date:
- 2001-12-02
- Reference:
- IOE01/06002/16
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355382
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Coughton Cross and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- COUGHTON CROSS AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, BIRMINGHAM ROAD
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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:
- COUGHTON CROSS AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, BIRMINGHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Coughton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP0803060326
Details
COUGHTON BIRMINGHAM ROAD
SP06SE (East side)
1/156
01/02/67 Coughton Cross and attached railings
GV II
Base of wayside cross. Medieval stone. Square socket stone with chamfered corners, and stump of shaft, on 3 steps. C18/early C19. Wrought iron railings on stone kerb. According to local tradition travellers entering or leaving the Wilds of Feckenham Forest offered prayers or thanksgiving at the cross.
(V.C.H.: Warwickshire, Vol.III, p.74; Transactions of Birmingham Archaeological Society, Vol.68, p.87).
Listing NGR: SP0803060326
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 305319
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1945), 74
Transactions of the Birmingham Archaeological Society in Transactions of the Birmingham Archaeological Society, Vol. 68, (), 87
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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