The Cross And Signpost is a Grade II listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 January 1976. Market cross.
The Cross And Signpost
- WRENN ID
- carved-threshold-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wakefield
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 January 1976
- Type
- Market cross
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
NORMANTON HIGH STREET SE 32 SE (east side) 2/52 The Cross and Signpost 15.1.76 - II
Stump of market cross, perhaps medieval, surmounted by lamp-post (formerly also sign-post) added in 1904. Sandstone and iron. Stone base square in section and approx. 1 metre high, tapered. Cast-iron lamp-post attached to top of stump by square clasping-socket with moulded cap surmounted by 4 dolphins with tails erect to the base of the lamp standard, which is decorated and has arms or branches on 3 sides with scrolled wrought-iron brackets to these and to the ladder-bar above; former pendants from the branches, in the form of inscribed cartouches, missing at time of survey (1986); but terminal lantern restored.
Listing NGR: SE3870422754
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