Remains Of Churchyard Cross, In Churchyard About 18 Metres South Of Nave, Church Of All Saints

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

SS94SW WOOTTON COURTENAY CP WOOTTON COURTENAY VILLAGE

6/121 Remains of churchyard cross, in churchyard about 18 metres south of nave, Church of All Saints -

GV II*

Churchyard cross, Early C15, mid C19 calvary. Ham stone. Three stage calvary, unusually fine socket, octagonal, 4 engaged columns with moulded caps and plinths, recessed panels with moulded surrounds, tapering shaft with deep grooves to the angles, in all about 1.8 m high, A Buckler drawing of 1839 shows shields in the recessed panels of which there are now no trace; Pooley refers to the remains of sculpture on 2 sides of the shaft, likewise no longer extant.

(Pooley, Old Crosses of Somerset, 1877).

Listing NGR: SS9381843414

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/1662 IOE Records taken by R M Rayner; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr R.M Rayner. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project