Cross To South Of Church Of St Hugo

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