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© Michael Bass
IoE Number:
435145
Location:
FORMER MARKET CROSS IN CHURCHYARD, CHURCH OF ST MARK, CHURCH STREET
MARK, SEDGEMOOR, SOMERSET
Photographer:
Michael Bass
Date Photographed:
02 July 2000
Date listed:
31 May 1985
Date of last amendment:
31 May 1985
Grade
II*
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ST34NE MARK CP CHURCH STREET
9/118 Former Market Cross in
churchyard, Church of St Wart
GV II*
Former market cross. Probably C15, restored lily and 1853. Dressed stone. Three steps, forming a base square on plan,
sumounted by a socket with broaches and a tapering shaft terminating in a square conical finial with a small iron cross
fixed in it, on the South side of the socket inscibed:- "SILVESTER KEEN, DAVID SfILLY,tfURCX#ARbE#S, 1749"I and on the
North side:- "REBUILT 1853. THOMAS WAYKE, GEORGE COOK HUTSON, CHURCH WARDENS." (Pooley, Old Crosses of Somerset,
1877).