The Market Cross is a Grade II* listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1959. A Post-Medieval Market cross. 1 related planning application.
The Market Cross
- WRENN ID
- strange-doorway-aspen
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1959
- Type
- Market cross
- Period
- Post-Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
ST49NW SOMERTON CP MARKET PLACE
9/159 The Market Cross
17.4.59
GV II*
Market Cross. Rebuilt 1673, with repairs in 1925, 1950 and 1983. Local lias stone cut and squared, with Ham stone dressings; multi-hipped conoid stone slate roof with stone ball finial surmounted by metal cross. Octagonal plan. Keinton stone slab base, up one step; central octagonal shaft with 3 step base and top corbelled to support roof timbers; to outer face each bay a segmental voussoired arch with lias imposts and Ham keystone, with angled offset buttresses each corner to impost height; above, a string course with corner gargoyles and battlemented parapet. Most important element in street scene. There has been a cross on this site since at least 1390: this cross owned by Lord Ilchester was sold to the town in 1916. Scheduled Ancient Monument (Somerset County No 18). (VCH, Volume III, 1974; Pooley, Old Crosses of Somerset, 1877).
Listing NGR: ST4906128538
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