SUNDIAL CIRCA 5 METRES SOUTH OF WEST END OF CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN

SUNDIAL CIRCA 5 METRES SOUTH OF WEST END OF CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1073103
Date first listed:: 02-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:: SUNDIAL CIRCA 5 METRES SOUTH OF WEST END OF CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
Statutory Address:: SUNDIAL CIRCA 5 METRES SOUTH OF WEST END OF CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1073103
Date first listed:: 02-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:: SUNDIAL CIRCA 5 METRES SOUTH OF WEST END OF CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
Statutory Address 1:: SUNDIAL CIRCA 5 METRES SOUTH OF WEST END OF CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: SUNDIAL CIRCA 5 METRES SOUTH OF WEST END OF CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH ROAD

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

County:: Lancashire
District:: West Lancashire (District Authority)
Parish:: Rufford
National Grid Reference:: SD 46415 15681

Details

SD 41 NE RUFFORD CHURCH ROAD 1759/7/7 Sundial c. 5 metres south 2.12.1986 of west end Church of St. Mary the Virgin

GV II

Base of former medieval preaching cross. Stone. Broad square block with weathered and worn top (possibly used for sharpening tools or weapons), with inscribed lettering round the sides stating that it is a preaching cross dated 1000 AD; removed from village green in 1818. Latterly used as a base for a (19 sundial mounted on dressed stone column, the latter removed or stolen c2000.

Listing NGR: SD4641515681

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Legacy System number:: 357709
Legacy System:: LBS

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