Description

SX 36 SW QUETHIOCK QUETHIOCK

12/133 Cross to south of church of
St Hugo
23.1.68
GV II*

Churchyard cross. Hiberno-Saxon type. Granite. Round base, 4 foot 6 inches in
diameter with 14 foot shaft, rectangular in plan and slightly tapered. Shaft divided
into 3 panels and carved with 4-cord, double beaded, angular plaitwork. Eroded.
Sides of shaft with continuous panel of foliated scrollwork. Wheal head cross with
cusps in openings. Cusping framed by round rolls. (cf cross at Pencarrony
Egloshale; at St Breward; St Columb Major and Prideaux Place, Padstow).
Mortice and tenon joints between wheel-head and shaft and between lower and middle
panels of shaft.
Re-erected in 1882. The base and head had been buried and the shaft broken in 2 and
used as gate posts.
With the exception of the cross in Mylor churchyard the cross at Quethiock is the
tallest in Cornwall.
A. Henwood The Parish Church of Quethiock
A. G. Langdon Old Cornish Crosses 1896
N. Pevsner and E. Radcliffe The Buildings of England, Cornwall, 2nd ed. 1980.

Listing NGR: SX3129764716

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17535697

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