The Pillar of Salt Road Sign Bury St. Edmunds, England
Listed Building Data
The Pillar of Salt Road Sign 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
- 1376516
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 17 September 1998
- Name
- THE PILLAR OF SALT ROAD SIGN
- Location
- THE PILLAR OF SALT ROAD SIGN, ANGEL HILL
- Parish
- Bury St. Edmunds
- District
- St. Edmundsbury
- County
- Suffolk
- Grid Reference
- TL 85512 64228
- Easting
- 585512.0000
- Northing
- 264228.0000
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
TL 8574 SE BURY ST EDMUNDS ANGEL HILL
639-1/8/10001 The Pillar of Salt Road Sign
GV II
Road sign. 1935. By Basil Oliver, architect to Bury St Edmunds T own Council. Whitewashed concrete and metal. International Modern style. Large octagonal pier has austere slightly oversailing lantern on top and projecting box-framed road signs in three directions. It stands on a plinth with steps and small corner octagonal piers. The 'Pillar of Salt', as it is known, forms the centre point of a very significant group of listed buildings and stands close to the former Abbey gatehouse. HISTORY. The Town Council went to great lengths to find something worthy of this important location when increased motor traffic made signing essential. Basil Oliver advised on the design and at the time when road signs were being standardised under the 1933 Regulations, this sign is individual and probably unique. It was approved by the Ministry of Transport in June 1935 subject to the letters and road numbers being 5" high. This was a compromise since the new standard was for letters 4.5" high and numbers 6" high. Bibliography Statham, M, The Book of Bury St Edmunds, 1988; MOT, The History of Traffic Signs, 1991.
Listing NGR: TL8551264228
