Greenhead Memorial Cross

The Greenhead Memorial Cross is a Grade II-listed memorial made of Portland stone, with a sandstone base. It is located at the roadside to the north of the Church of St Cuthbert and next to the Grade II-listed Memorial Drinking Fountain, which was built in 1865 in memory of John Blenkinsop Coulson. The memorial is situated within the Buffer Zone of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire (Hadrian's Wall) World Heritage Site.

Standing approximately 5 meters tall, the memorial features a slender early-medieval cross with a hemispherical boss at the center of the cross arms and ornamental detailing along the cross shaft. The moulded foot of the cross shaft rises from a low, tapering pedestal that sits on a two-stepped base.

The main dedicatory inscription on the front face of the base reads: "TO THE IMMORTAL MEMORY OF THE MEN FROM THIS PARISH WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 1919 IN THE SERVICE OF THEIR KING AND COUNTRY." The names of those commemorated from the First World War are recorded on the sides of the pedestal. A small stone plaque on the steps at the front reads "1939 – 1945 (NAMES)."

The memorial is enclosed by a hedge at the rear and has curving low stone walls at the front that end in dwarf piers at the entrance to the enclosure.