Description

ST72SW
7/55

HORSINGTON CP
Horsington Village Cross

24.3.61

GV
II

Village Cross. Possibly C13. Ham stone. Stepped circular base about 3 metres diameter at base, rising in 4 steps to about 1.2 metres high; this surmounted by 650mm square base about 450mm high with broached top corners; then octagonal shaft with runout to square, about 300mm wide tapering to 150mm, in all about 3 metres high, the top of the shaft broken: on the South face the remains of a sculptured figure under a canopy, possibly a friar. It may have been a preaching cross; it was certainly the focal point of the former market and fair.
Scheduled Ancient monument (Somerset County No 215). (Pooley, Old Crosses of Somerset, 1877).

Listing NGR: ST7030723836

External Links

• Historic England Listing

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Recommended Books

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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]