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Market Cross, Warkworth

Description: Market Cross

Grade: II
Date Listed: 31 December 1969
English Heritage Building ID: 237178

OS Grid Reference: NU2470706066
OS Grid Coordinates: 424707, 606066
Latitude/Longitude: 55.3480, -1.6119

Location: Bridge Street, Warkworth, Northumberland NE65 0UL

Locality: Warkworth
Local Authority: Northumberland
County: Northumberland
Country: England
Postcode: NE65 0UL

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Listing Text

NU 2406 WARKWORTH CASTLE STREET

21/287 Market Cross
31.12.69
GV II

Market Cross. Stepped base probably survives from 1706 cross; upper part
replaced c.1830 by Duke of Northumberland, and restored C20. Square 3-stepped
base (bottom step partly under tarmac). Cross octagonal above square plinth;
restored upper part, above panelled set-back, has sunk cinquefoil-headed
panels holding small cast-iron plates with Percy emblems (alternating crescents
and fetterlocks). Top has swept panelled dome and cast-iron finial with
gilded cross.



Listing NGR: NU2470806066

Source: English Heritage

Listed building text is © Crown Copyright. Reproduced under licence: PSI Click-use licence number C2008002006.



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