Plague Cross Alne, England
Listed Building Data
Plague Cross 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
- 1151296
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 26 June 1984
- Name
- PLAGUE CROSS
- Location
- PLAGUE CROSS
- Parish
- Alne
- District
- Hambleton
- County
- North Yorkshire
- Grid Reference
- SE 49416 64866
- Easting
- 449416.0000
- Northing
- 464866.0000
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
SE 46 SE ALNE 7/5 Plague Cross
II
Cross base, with later milestone inscription, and adjoining stone trough for disinfected water. Stone. Octagonal shaft on low chamfered plinth. Traditionally connected with the plague of 1604 when it is said to have been a place of barter outside the village where food would be left and money deposited in the trough.
Pevsner, N., Yorkshire, North Riding, 1966, p 60 VCH Yorkshire, North Riding, 1923, p 85
Listing NGR: SE4941664866
