Base Of Cross At Junction With B3151 is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1959. Cross base.

Base Of Cross At Junction With B3151

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Country
England
Date first listed
17 April 1959
Type
Cross base
Source
Historic England listing

Description

ST43SE COMPTON DUNDON CP COMPTON STREET (south side) COMPTON

1/60 Base of Cross at junction with B3151

17.4.59

  • II

Base of Wayside Cross. Probably C14. Ham stone. Two C20 circular stone steps of 2 metres and 1.5 metres diameter, both 300mm high, replacing four earlier steps; fragment of a circular top step survives, about 1 metre diameter and 175mm high, above is the socket, about 700mm square by 250mm high, the corners deeply broached: only about 300mm of shaft survives, the remainder destroyed 'by some people in a drunken frolic' some time before 1877 (Pooley, Old Crosses of Somerset, 1877).

Listing NGR: ST4894632887

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