Churchyard Cross Approximately 30 Metres East of Church of St. Michael
CHURCHYARD CROSS APPROXIMATELY 30 METRES EAST OF CHURCH OF ST. MICHAEL, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1308621
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1967
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCHYARD CROSS APPROXIMATELY 30 METRES EAST OF CHURCH OF ST. MICHAEL, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1308621
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1967
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCHYARD CROSS APPROXIMATELY 30 METRES EAST OF CHURCH OF ST. MICHAEL, HIGH STREET
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCHYARD CROSS APPROXIMATELY 30 METRES EAST OF CHURCH OF ST. MICHAEL, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chagford
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 70201 87542
Details
CHAGFORD HIGH STREET (north side)
SX 7087 Chagford
6/128 Churchyard Cross approximately 30
- metres east of Church of St.
22.2.67 Michael
GV II
Churchyard cross and war memorial. Erected as a war memorial in 1928 using
fragments of probably C15 crosses. Granite. Cross stands approximately 3.8 metres
high. It is crudely carved with a tall shaft and short stumpy arms. There is a
cross inscribed on the west side at the junction of the arms. The head is medieval
but the shaft is C20 although it is finished in the same style. The socket stone is
also medieval. Standing approximately 400mm high it is octagonal with moulded
sides. It stands on a 2-step plinth; the lower one higher with a soffit-moulded
tread and chamfered plinth. The sides of the steps are inscribed as a memorial to
the dead of both world wars.
The medieval cross head was formerly built into a wall near Holystreet Manor and
before that is said to have stood in the Market Square. The socket stone was from
the yard of Southmead House. Both are medieval but Masson-Phillips points out their
different character and that they never were components of the same medieval cross.
Source. E. N. Masson-Phillips. Ancient Crosses of Devon, Part 1. Trans.
Devon.Assoc. 69 (1937) p. 324.
Listing NGR: SX7019787542
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 8 December 2016.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 94657
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Transactions of the Devonshire Association in Transactions of the Devonshire Association, (1937), 324
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 08/12/2016 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/45919
War Memorials Online, accessed 08/12/2016 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/150764
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