Cheriton Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 August 1965. A Medieval War memorial.
Cheriton Cross
- WRENN ID
- moated-groin-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 August 1965
- Type
- War memorial
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SX 79 SE CHERITON BISHOP CHERITON CROSS
10/41 Cheriton Cross 26.8.65 (formerly listed as Village Cross)
II
Wayside Cross now War Memorial. Medieval, restored and repositioned in C20. Granite. Small (approx. 1.22m high) Type B cross, octagonal in section with 2 short arms (west side restored), set in massive granite socket stone which is square in section with heavily weathered and indistinct corner shoulders making top surface octagonal. It was moved approx. 20m north of former site during road widening operations of 1969. Remaining upper part of cross, missing the greater part of its shaft. Restored, according to tablet at rear, to the Glory of God and to memory of men of Cheriton Bishop who laid down their lives in World War I and II. Scheduled Ancient Monument (404). E Masson-Phillips. Ancient Stone Crosses of Devon Part 2 Trans. Devon. Assoc. 70 (1938) p.326-7.
Listing NGR: SX7731193005
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 8 December 2016.
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