Swaffham Market Cross is a Grade I listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1951. A Post-Medieval Market cross. 1 related planning application.
Swaffham Market Cross
- WRENN ID
- bitter-joist-flax
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1951
- Type
- Market cross
- Period
- Post-Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Market Cross, also known as the Butter Cross, built in 1781-1783 for George Walpole, the third Earl of Orford, probably to a design by James Wyatt, with restorations of 1873, 1904, 1984 and 2018.
MATERIALS: of timber, rendered and painted to imitate limestone, with a lead roof and stone base.
PLAN: it is circular on plan.
EXTERIOR: it comprises a peristyle rotunda with a triple-stepped base supporting eight unfluted Roman Doric columns carrying a plain entablature with a dentilled cornice. Two leaded steps lead into a half-round dome surmounted by a statue of Ceres, the Roman goddess of corn and agriculture, depicted holding a cornucopia (horn of plenty) in her left hand and a sheaf of corn in her right hand.
INTERIOR: the interior has a stone-flagged floor beneath a dished plaster ceiling.
Detailed Attributes
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