Two Carved Figures and a Direction Stone Against NW Corner of Petherton Bridge at NGR ST 4 South Petherton, England
Listed Building Data
Two Carved Figures and a Direction Stone Against NW Corner of Petherton Bridge at NGR ST 4 has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1056969
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 18 February 1988
- Name
- TWO CARVED FIGURES AND A DIRECTION STONE AGAINST NORTH WEST CORNER OF PETHERTON BRIDGE AT NGR ST 4500 1670
- Location
- TWO CARVED FIGURES AND A DIRECTION STONE AGAINST NORTH WEST CORNER OF PETHERTON BRIDGE AT NGR ST 4500 1670
- Parish
- South Petherton
- District
- South Somerset
- County
- Somerset
- Grid Reference
- ST 45055 16714
- Easting
- 345055.2990
- Northing
- 116714.3620
Listed Building Description
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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
