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ST9387
758-1/4/238

MALMESBURY
MARKET CROSS (west side)
No.6 The Apostles and attached rear rubble wall

(Formerly Listed as: MARKET CROSS, (West side) No.6, The Apostle Spoon)

18/01/49

GV
II
Inn, now restaurant. Late C14 or C15, extended C20. Roughcast over limestone rubble, formerly with timber-framed jettied first floor, with left hand exterior gable and right hand ridge stacks and stone tiled roof.

EXTERIOR: two storeys and attic; four window range. Single-depth plan parallel to street, with full-length first floor chamber. The ground floor projects with a C20 front, shallow tiled roof and a central doorway; C20 leaded lattice casements. Four window rear has two casement dormers. East front (to right) has half-octagonal stair turret with loop window and remains of Gothic arch to former doorway.

INTERIOR: much structural alteration. Originally a jettied front of which the moulded bressumer support exists adjacent to the stairs, with an inner doorway in a moulded former window head and part ogee-headed niche to the right. First floor has stop-chamfered beams, jowl posts and a stone fireplace, and collar-truss roof with wind braces to lower register and butt purlins (repaired 1960s). The cellar has a semi-circular tunnel vault extending beneath the road, and a well.

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached rear wall curves round rear area.

HISTORICAL NOTE: reputedly Hospitium to the Abbey, until 1924 the Green Dragon Inn. Said to be a blocked-in holy stoup, in which so-called Apostle Spoon was found and seen in living memory.

Listing NGR: ST9328887249

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