Covell Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1995. Commemorative cross.

Covell Cross

WRENN ID
wild-panel-autumn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lancaster
Country
England
Date first listed
13 March 1995
Type
Commemorative cross
Source
Historic England listing

Description

LANCASTER

SD4761NW CHURCH STREET 1685-1/6/93 (West side) Covell Cross

GV II

Commemorative cross. 1903. By Austin and Paley. To celebrate the coronation of King Edward VII in 1902. Sandstone ashlar. A tapering square shaft on an octagonal plinth on an octagonal stepped base. The plinth has sunk panels on each face with, on the south, a shield bearing the Royal coat-of-arms, on the north those of the Borough of Lancaster, on the west the Lancashire rose, and on the east an explanatory inscription. The cross shaft has a panelled base which rises in the centre; the shaft itself has half-round mouldings worked on the edges and panels of arabesque on the east and west faces. The cross-head, which has panels of leaves carved on the east and west faces, has rounded ends to the arms and concave quadrants between them.

Listing NGR: SD4749561869

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