GAVESTON'S CROSS

GAVESTON'S CROSS, BLACKLOW HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1364935
Date first listed:: 11-Apr-1967
List Entry Name:: GAVESTON'S CROSS
Statutory Address:: GAVESTON'S CROSS, BLACKLOW HILL

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Date:: 2002-10-06
Reference:: IOE01/09398/35
Rights:: © Helmut Schulenburg. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1364935
Date first listed:: 11-Apr-1967
List Entry Name:: GAVESTON'S CROSS
Statutory Address 1:: GAVESTON'S CROSS, BLACKLOW HILL

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:: GAVESTON'S CROSS, BLACKLOW HILL

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

County:: Warwickshire
District:: Warwick (District Authority)
Parish:: Leek Wootton and Guy's Cliffe
National Grid Reference:: SP 28908 67534

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LEEK WOOTTON, Blacklow Hill, Gaveston's Cross

11.04.67

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1832 by J C Jackson. Monument to mark the site of the execution of Piers Gaveston, the favourite, and supposed lover, of Edward II, in 1312. Sandstone ashlar. 25ft high. Comprises five stepped plinth, on top of which is a square base with a plaque in its south face. Base surmounted by four square pillars topped by a stone slab on which is a heavy short stone cross. The inscription on the plaque reads "In the hollow of this rock was beheaded on the 17 day of July 1312, by barons lawless as himself, Piers Gaveston, Earl of Cornwall, the minion of a hateful king, in life and death a memorable instance of misrule".

Listing NGR: SP2890867534

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Legacy System number:: 308063
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.