Two Cornish Crosses At South End Of Garden And Approximately 175 Metres South Of Scorrier House

ST DAY SCORRIER SW 74 SW 6/356 Two Cornish crosses at south end of garden and approx. 175 Dec 1949 metres south of Scorrier House (formerly listed as "2 stone crosses Scorrier House") GV II* Two Cornish crosses. Medieval. Granite, both wheelhead type, with integral shafts. No.l: the smaller of the two (identified by Dexter and Dexter as Scorrier No.1), mounted in a modern rectangular base, is rectangular in section and approx. 1 1/2 metres high, with chamfered corners to the shaft, and a sunk oval panel in each face, with a raised figure of Christ on the south face and a raised Latin cross on the north face. No.2: the larger of the two (identified by Langdon as Scorrier No.2), is set on a mound approx. 5 metres to the north-east of the first, and is rectangular in section and approx. 3 metres high, with a small head which has sunk panels with a cross in each side. Thick shrubbery round the shaft prevented closer inspection, but the drawings by Langdon show complicated zig- zag and saw-tooth decoration on all sides of the shaft, and a ring round each cross. According to Langdon, this formerly stood in the parish of St Wendron, at the junction of the road to Stythian with the Helston-Penryn road, but was bought by the Williams family in 1849, and brought here. References: A.G.Langdon Old Cornish Crosses (1898); T.F.G.Dexter and Henry Dexter Cornish Crosses Christian and Pagan (1938).

Listing NGR: SW7254143578