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Latitude: 50.6421 / 50°38'31"N
Longitude: -4.3658 / 4°21'56"W
OS Eastings: 232820
OS Northings: 85165
OS Grid: SX328851
Mapcode National: GBR NL.8SJ4
Mapcode Global: FRA 17RC.T3X
Entry Name: The Round House and Base of Medieval Market Cross
Listing Date: 13 September 1972
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1195995
English Heritage Legacy ID: 370041
Location: Launceston, Cornwall, PL15
County: Cornwall
Civil Parish: Launceston
Built-Up Area: Launceston
Traditional County: Cornwall
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall
Church of England Parish: Launceston
Church of England Diocese: Truro
LAUNCESTON
SX3285 NEWPORT SQUARE
660-1/3/104 (South side)
13/09/72 The Round House and base of Medieval
Market Cross
GV II
Market house and preaching cross. Medieval cross base; 1829
market house built for the Duke of Northumberland. Granite
plinth, otherwise stuccoed brick with buttressed angles and
moulded cornice to embattled parapet; conical slate roof with
tall weather vane. Octagonal plan. Gothic style. Single
storey; 4 open bays with 2-centred-arched openings. Shaft of
cross is short dressed granite monolith. It is from this cross
that former Members of Parliament were proposed when Newport
was a separate Parliamentary Borough.
Listing NGR: SX3282085165
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