ROMAN SHRINE TO MINERVA

ROMAN SHRINE TO MINERVA, EDGARS FIELD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1375783
Date first listed:: 28-Jul-1955
List Entry Name:: ROMAN SHRINE TO MINERVA
Statutory Address:: ROMAN SHRINE TO MINERVA, EDGARS FIELD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1375783
Date first listed:: 28-Jul-1955
Date of most recent amendment:: 23-Jul-1998
List Entry Name:: ROMAN SHRINE TO MINERVA
Statutory Address 1:: ROMAN SHRINE TO MINERVA, EDGARS FIELD

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:: ROMAN SHRINE TO MINERVA, EDGARS FIELD

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District:: Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SJ 40667 65613

Details

CHESTER CITY (EM)

SJ4065 EDGAR'S FIELD 1932-1/8/88 (West side) 28/07/55 Roman shrine to Minerva (Formerly Listed as: EDGAR'S FIELD, Handbridge Figure of Minerva)

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Shrine statue of Minerva carved in quarry face in Edgar's Field. Early C2. Red sandstone. Detail badly eroded. The shrine is the only example surviving in situ of its kind in Britain. Interpretive material is available in the Grosvenor Museum, Grosvenor Street, Chester IM. The shrine is protected by a C19 stone surround with hood, refurbished late C20.

Listing NGR: SJ4066765613

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Legacy System number:: 469762
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.