List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: VILLAGE CROSS
List Entry Number: 1158002
Location
VILLAGE CROSS, BROAD STREET
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County:
District: North Somerset
District Type: Unitary Authority
Parish: Congresbury
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II*
Date first listed: 09-Feb-1961
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
Legacy System Information
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 33963
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List Entry Description
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History
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Details
ST 46 SW
CONGRESBURY C.P.
4/95
9.2.61
BROAD STREET
Village Cross
G.V.
II*
Village Cross. C15 with C19 shaft finial. Limestone. Octagonal on plan with
4 tiers of steps (formerly 6 - two are buried by the raising of the road level) up
to square socket which has broached shoulders. Shaft square on plan also has
broached shoulders and is 3 metres high. C19 finial to shaft apex with block
base and ball. The whole structure is 6 metres high and forms an important
visual element at the head of Broad Street opposite the Ship and Castle Inn (q.v.).
The cross is a scheduled ancient monument, Avon No. 111. (Charles Pooley, The
Old Stone Crosses of Somerset, 1877).
Listing NGR: ST4373263818
Selected Sources
Books and journalsPooley, C, An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Old Stone Crosses of Somerset, (1877)
Map
National Grid Reference: ST4373263818
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