Village Cross (At Corner Of Rea Lane) is a Grade II* listed building in the Gloucester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1955. A C15 Monument.
Village Cross (At Corner Of Rea Lane)
- WRENN ID
- standing-kitchen-soot
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Gloucester
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1955
- Type
- Monument
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
GLOUCESTER
SO81NW ST SWITHUN'S ROAD, Hempsted 844-1/3/455 (South side) 10/01/55 Village Cross (at corner of Rea Lane) (Formerly Listed as: ST SWITHUN'S ROAD, Hempstead Cross in Village (at corner of Rea Lane))
GV II*
Village cross. Early C15. Dressed stone shaft of a cross found buried in the churchyard of the Church of St Swithun, Hempsted (qv), by Canon Samuel Lysons in 1839. The shaft, with a short upper part added to it and the cross carved at his direction, was erected c1850 for Lysons on a stepped base on the present site. EXTERIOR: square base of two steps of dressed stone blocks laid on a C20 bottom step of rubble, and an upper, inset, plinth block, probably medieval, with a badly weathered chamfer; dowelled into the top of the plinth block the slender, medieval shaft with chamfered angles broached at the bottom; the C19 addition to the shaft surmounted by carved Celtic cross. The medieval shaft is believed to be from a cross erected with money donated by William Franklin in 1417 before he set out on a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostella. Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Listing NGR: SO8146716949
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