Description

ST14SE STRINGSTON CP

6/197 Churchyard Cross, 5 metres South
of porch, Church of St Mary

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GV II*

Churchyard Cross. Late C14, restored early C20. Sandstone and concrete. Two stage calvary, octagon on wide square
plinth with broached corners forming octagon and octagonal tapering shaft, broached corners and metal ties renewed with
concrete. Surmounted by abacus, richly carved with foliage, carrying a pierced head likewise very richly ornamented
and now somewhat eroded. According to Pooley, each face is embellished with a pair of trefoil headed canopied niches
divided by a mullion which on the East side is enlarged to form the Holy Rood and on the West the Virgin and child.
The North and South faces have a bishop and a knight respectively in canopied niches. A rare example of this highly
ornamental type of churchyard cross. Scheduled Ancient Monument (Somerset County No. 250). (Photograph in NMR; Pooley,
Old Crosses of Somerset, 1877).

Listing NGR: ST1764542390

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17556065

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Recommended Books

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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)