Market Cross is a Grade II* listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1960. A C15 Monument.

Market Cross

WRENN ID
gilded-marble-sparrow
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Country
England
Date first listed
4 October 1960
Type
Monument
Source
Historic England listing

Description

ST 7317 7/30 4.10.60

STALBRIDGE HIGH STREET (EAST SIDE) Market Cross

GV II*

Market Cross. Second half of C15. Cross head C20. Stone 3-step octagonal base. Square plinth with three-quarters detached square columns in each corner with moulded bases and capitals. Central panels with carving too worn to be intelligible. Tapering octagonal shaft starting as square in the base with the corners turning into attached pinnacles which terminate in finials. To the west is a weathered carving of a figure standing on an animal under a canopy with a floriate finial. Scheduled as an ancient monument. "RCHM, Dorset, Vol III", HMSO, 1970, p249, no. 2; Hutchins John "The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset", Third ed. 1868, reprint by EP, 1973. Vol iii, p670. Newman J and Pevsner N "The Buildings of England: Dorset", Penguin, 1972, p396.

Listing NGR: ST7349117999

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