We don't have any photos of this building yet. Why don't you be the first to send us one?
Latitude: 50.9472 / 50°56'50"N
Longitude: -2.7835 / 2°47'0"W
OS Eastings: 345055
OS Northings: 116715
OS Grid: ST450167
Mapcode National: GBR MG.NQLX
Mapcode Global: FRA 561L.Z9F
Plus Code: 9C2VW6W8+VJ
Entry Name: Two Carved Figures and a Direction Stone Against North West Corner of Petherton Bridge at Ngr St 4500 1670
Listing Date: 18 February 1988
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1056969
English Heritage Legacy ID: 264174
ID on this website: 101056969
Location: Drayton, Somerset, TA12
County: Somerset
District: South Somerset
Civil Parish: South Petherton
Traditional County: Somerset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset
Church of England Parish: South Petherton with the Seavingtons and the Lambrooks
Church of England Diocese: Bath and Wells
Tagged with: Building Guidestone
SOUTH PETHERTON CP
ST41NE
3/90 Two carved figures and a
direction stone against
north-west corner of Petherton
Bridge at NGR ST 4500 1670
GV II
Two figures and a direction stone. Possibly C15 and C18. All in carved Ham stone. The figures are of a boy and a girl, about one metre high, set in a special housing at the side of the bridge: they are said to be a memorial to two
children who drowned from the former decayed wooden bridge, which as a memorial to them was replaced by a 3-arch stone bridge, demolished in the early 1970s: this is thought to have been a Roman crossing point of the Fosse Way. The
direction stone, now set immediately to the west, is presumably relocated from the junction of the Fossway and the old road to Yeovil; it is about 450mm x 150mm, and 600mm high, tapered with rounded top, and is inscribed on the north face
'THE RIG/(H)T HAND/ R0A(D)/ LEAD(S)/ TO YEO/(VIL)'. (Greenwood C and J, Somerset Delineated, 1822: VCH, Vol III, 1974:
Bentley JB and Murless BJ, Somerset Roads, SIAS, 1985).
Listing NGR: ST4505516714
External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.
Other nearby listed buildings
