Austwick-Lawkland parish boundary stone at SD 77931 67472

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Parish boundary marker thought to date to the early C19. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1442532
Date first listed:: 15-Feb-2017
List Entry Name:: Austwick-Lawkland parish boundary stone at SD 77931 67472

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1442532
Date first listed:: 15-Feb-2017
List Entry Name:: Austwick-Lawkland parish boundary stone at SD 77931 67472
Location Description:: Sited on the northern grass verge of the A65, just inside Lawkland parish, south of a telephone exchange building.

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

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

District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Austwick
District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Lawkland
National Park:: YORKSHIRE DALES
National Grid Reference:: SD7793167472

Summary

Parish boundary marker thought to date to the early C19.

Reasons for Designation

The Austwick-Lawkland parish boundary stone at SD 77931 67472 is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * Date: as a good example of early C19 street furniture; * Craftsmanship: well executed inscriptions utilising a typeface popular in the early C19.

History

The first edition 1:2500 Ordnance Survey map (published 1894) marks just five boundary stones on the boundary between Austwick and Lawkland parishes, a boundary that extends for over 18km. The four known surviving stones are effectively identical. The style of the inscribed lettering, which could be described as Didone serif typeface, suggests that the markers are early C19, the lettering closely resembling Fat Face typescript invented 1803, a development on from mid- to late C18 typefaces by John Baskerville and Giambattista Bodoni.

Details

Parish boundary marker, probably early C19.

Dressed slate slab about 1m high and 1m wide with a pointed top and chamfered arrises. Inscribed AUSTWICK LAWKLAND, the two names separated by a vertical V-shaped groove bisecting the stone. The rear of the stone is blank.

Sources

Books and journals
A Winchester, , Discovering Parish Boundaries, (2008), 49

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

The listed building(s) is/are shown coloured blue on the attached map. Pursuant to s.1 (5A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (‘the Act’), structures attached to or within the curtilage of the listed building (save those coloured blue on the map) are not to be treated as part of the listed building for the purposes of the Act.