The Village Cross is a Grade II* listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1958. A Late Medieval Village cross.
The Village Cross
- WRENN ID
- pale-bailey-dew
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 February 1958
- Type
- Village cross
- Period
- Late Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
ST4112 HINTON ST GEORGE CP WEST STREET (North side)
7/83 The Village Cross
4.2.58
GV II*
Village cross. Late medieval, with C18 finial. Ham stone ashlar. Octagonal base, the lowest part about 3 metres across and average 900mm high, having chamfered plinth and chamfered coving to nosing of water-holding step of about 500mm wide, then 2 similar steps about 600mm and 450mm high. Square plan socket base, having a chamfered plinth, in all about 750mm wide x 500mm high, the top corners either broached or prepared as bases for small pinnacles. The shaft square at base changing to an octagon, with statue, said to be of St John the Baptist, in canopied surround applied on east face. Finial of classical design, with Doric cap, cube for a former sundial, and a ball finial, the whole about 6 metres high. One of the best village crosses/Tn G county, with important streetscene value, in what is probably its original position. Scheduled Ancient Monument, (Somerset County No 432). (Pooley, Old Crosses of Somerset, 1877; VCH Somerset, Vol IV, 1978, p39).
Listing NGR: ST4197012622
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