Boundary Stone 47M NW of Fire Station Penzance, England
Listed Building Data
Boundary Stone 47M NW of Fire Station 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
- 1408102
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 23 February 2012
- Name
- Boundary Stone 47m North-West of the Fire Station
- Parish
- Penzance
- District
- Cornwall
- Grid Reference
- SW4661430827
- Easting
- 146613.8257
- Northing
- 30827.4772
Listed Building Reasons
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
The boundary stone 47m north-west of the fire station, Nancealverne, Penzance, Cornwall is designated at Grade II, for the following principal reasons: Intactness: it is a good example of a C17 borough boundary stone; Historic interest: it illustrates the establishment of local government in this part of Cornwall; * Group value: it has strong group value with the other surviving boundary stone.
Listed Building History
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James I granted a charter for the Borough of Penzance in 1614, and four inscribed stones were erected in 1687 to determine where the boundary was crossed by the main roads into the Borough. These were located at Chyandour, Chapel St Clare, Alverton and Wherrytown, costing £1 19s 6d to make and £1 10s 0d to erect. As late as the mid-C19 the stones were used as markers for a traditional race carried out by Penzance councillors called "beating the bounds".
One of the stones was removed when Alverton Road was widened, and a memorial plaque was erected nearby in 1867. The stone in Wherrytown is thought to have been removed during the development of the Esplanade. The stones at Chyandour and Chapel St Clare remain in situ.
Listed Building Description
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The boundary stone is set within a stone wall, at the rear of the footpath on the east side of St Clare Street. It is constructed of granite, rectangular on plan with a rounded top. The stone is 64cm tall. There are rectangular recesses on three faces, where the stone has been cut back to leave a raised inscription, which reads: P 16 87. The lettering is rounded and worn. There is a broad bench mark at the top of the front face and a metal pin in the top.
