Description

PUTLEY CP PUTLEY
SO 63 NW

4/164 Churchyard cross and
base about 20 yards south
of Chancel of Putley Parish
6.3.67 Church (formerly listed as
Parish Church Churchyard Cross)

GV II*

Churchyard cross with base and shaft. Possibly C14 with shaft restored and
shortened. Dressed sandstone. Octagonal base on three steps has ogee-
headed niche on west side and pyramidical stops bringing it to square plan
at the bottom. Base of shaft also has pyramidical stops. Head has figures
facing towards cardinal points viz Crucifixion to west; St Andrew to north,
Virgin and Child to east, and a bishop to the south. An important church-
yard cross in view of its surviving medieval figure sculpture (RCHM Vol II,
p 156).

Listing NGR: SO6461337593

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17537391

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Recommended Books

• 
  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)