Description

MALMESBURY

ST9387 MARKET CROSS
758-1/4/238 (West side)
18/01/49 No.6
The Apostles and attached rear
rubble wall
(Formerly Listed as:
MARKET CROSS
(West side)
No.6
The Apostle Spoon)

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: 2 storeys and attic; 4-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. 4-window
rear has 2 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.
(Victoria History of the Counties of England: Crowley DA: A
History of Wiltshire: 134).

Listing NGR: ST9328887249

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26559431

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