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List entry Summary

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Name: THE CROSS

List entry Number: 1269291

Location

THE CROSS, MARKET CROSS

The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County	District	District Type	Parish
	Wiltshire	Unitary Authority	Malmesbury

National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.

Grade: I

Date first listed: 18-Jan-1949

Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.

Legacy System Information

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System: LBS

UID: 460913

Asset Groupings

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List entry Description

Summary of Building

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History

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Details

MALMESBURY

ST9387 MARKET CROSS 758-1/4/255 (North side) 18/01/49 The Cross

GV I

Market cross. Late C15/early C16, renovated c1800 by the Earl of Suffolk, and repaired 1909-12 and 1949-50. Limestone ashlar. Octagonal plan about a central shaft. Each face has a moulded 4-centre open arch with a low plinth, and 2 entrances facing SW and NE, with foliate spandrels beneath a drip and a crenellated parapet. Angle buttresses between have crocketed pinnacles rising from 2 levels of weathering. A large lantern above the roof is supported by cyma-moulded arch-braced roll top flying buttresses, with figures of the saints and the Crucifixion set in niches beneath attached finials, beneath an elaborate ogee cap with crockets and finials. INTERIOR: central octagonal shaft with attached columns and a low bench, with matching columns to the inside of the buttresses, supports a lierne vault with bosses. HISTORICAL NOTE: Leland states c1544 that it was built in living memory "for poore market folkes to stande dry when rayne cummith". An extremely fine example of its type. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Wiltshire: London: 1963-: 327; Victoria History of the Counties of England: Crowley DA: Wiltshire: 1956-: 134).

Listing NGR: ST9330487229

Selected Sources

1. Article  Reference - Author: BA Crowley - Title: The Victoria History of the County of Wiltshire - Date: 1991 - Journal Title: The Victoria History of the Counties of England - Page References: 134
2. Article  Reference - Author: Nikolaus Pevsner and Derek Simpson - Title: Wiltshire - Date: 1963 - Journal Title: The Buildings of England - Page References: 327

National Grid Reference: ST 93302 87228

Map

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