The Round House And Base Of Medieval Market Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Market house.

The Round House And Base Of Medieval Market Cross

WRENN ID: former-gallery-bittern
Grade: II
Local Planning Authority: Cornwall
Country: England
Type: Market house
Source: Historic England listing

Description

LAUNCESTON

SX3285 NEWPORT SQUARE 660-1/3/104 (South side) 13/09/72 The Round House and base of Medieval Market Cross

GV II

Market house and preaching cross. Medieval cross base; 1829 market house built for the Duke of Northumberland. Granite plinth, otherwise stuccoed brick with buttressed angles and moulded cornice to embattled parapet; conical slate roof with tall weather vane. Octagonal plan. Gothic style. Single storey; 4 open bays with 2-centred-arched openings. Shaft of cross is short dressed granite monolith. It is from this cross that former Members of Parliament were proposed when Newport was a separate Parliamentary Borough.

Listing NGR: SX3282085165

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