Market Cross And Stocks is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1987. A C16 Market cross.
Market Cross And Stocks
- WRENN ID
- little-pillar-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 December 1987
- Type
- Market cross
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
NZ 11 SW NEWSHAM VILLAGE STREET (south side)
2/107 Market cross and stocks
GV II
Cross and stocks. C16 cross restored 1828 and 1935, stocks 1828. Ashlar sandstone cross. Wrought-iron stocks. Cross: 3 square steps supporting octagonal base, with monolithic tapering shaft and C20 cap inscribed "RSTD 1828 1935". Metal spike on top, braced in position by 4 brackets. Immediately to east, pink granite boulder on the top of which are wrought- iron shackles, with hinge and lock, incorporating 3 larger holes and one smaller hole. Newsham had an important market in Tudor and Stuart times. T Bulmer, History, Topography and Directory of North Yorkshire, (1890), p 468: "Near the end of the street is an old stone cross, which was repaired by subscription in 1828; at the same time, the old wooden stocks, which stood close by, were replaced by iron ones; and this obsolete instrument of correction is still in good preservation".
Listing NGR: NZ1058810011
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