Sundial Approximately 5 Metres to South of Church of Saint Michael
SUNDIAL APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES TO SOUTH OF CHURCH OF SAINT MICHAEL, VILLAGE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366823
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Sundial Approximately 5 Metres to South of Church of Saint Michael
- Statutory Address:
- SUNDIAL APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES TO SOUTH OF CHURCH OF SAINT MICHAEL, VILLAGE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366823
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Sundial Approximately 5 Metres to South of Church of Saint Michael
- Statutory Address 1:
- SUNDIAL APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES TO SOUTH OF CHURCH OF SAINT MICHAEL, VILLAGE 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:
- SUNDIAL APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES TO SOUTH OF CHURCH OF SAINT MICHAEL, VILLAGE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Child's Ercall
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 66564 25075
Details
CHILD'S ERCALL C.P. VILLAGE ROAD (north side) SJ 62 NE 7/28 Sundial approx. 5 metres. - to south of Church of Saint Michael
GV II
Sundial. Dated 1773. Dressed red sandstone. Pair of circular steps, chamfered circular base, tapered shaft with square base and octagonal neck, and lumpy square dial plate with gnomon, inscribed: "1773/J : Voin " (?). Partly illegible at time of survey (March 1986. The dial plate may be a later addition to an earlier sundial. The circular steps may be the remains of a former churchyard cross. D.H.S. Cranage, An Architectural Account of the Churches of Shropshire, part 8, p.688.
Listing NGR: SJ6656425075
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 260178
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cranage, DHS, An Architectural Account of the Churches of Shropshire, (1908), 688
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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