Fragment Of Cross Shaft At Base Of Tree At Corner Of Road Junction is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 February 1988. Cross shaft.

Fragment Of Cross Shaft At Base Of Tree At Corner Of Road Junction

WRENN ID: veiled-cinder-rush
Grade: II
Local Planning Authority: Somerset
Country: England
Date first listed: 18 February 1988
Type: Cross shaft
Source: Historic England listing

Description

ST4214 LOPEN CP CHURCH STREET (North side)

8/46 Fragment of cross shaft at base of tree at corner of road junction

GV II

Fragment of medieval cross shaft. Ham stone. Square plain shaft about 300mm x 300mm, 500mm high, with another fragment of stone nearby. This cross marked the site of the Lopen Fair, first recorded by 1201, discontinued during the C19. It was at Lopen Fair that as a young curate the later Cardinal Wolsey was put into the stocks for being drunk and disorderly. (Hopper S, Lopen and its Church, Petherton Press, 1975; VCH, Vol III, l974).

Listing NGR: ST4258714356

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