Churchyard Cross Approximately 30 Metres East Of Church Of St. Michael

CHAGFORD HIGH STREET (north side) SX 7087 Chagford 6/128 Churchyard Cross approximately 30 - metres east of Church of St. 22.2.67 Michael GV II

Churchyard cross and war memorial. Erected as a war memorial in 1928 using fragments of probably C15 crosses. Granite. Cross stands approximately 3.8 metres high. It is crudely carved with a tall shaft and short stumpy arms. There is a cross inscribed on the west side at the junction of the arms. The head is medieval but the shaft is C20 although it is finished in the same style. The socket stone is also medieval. Standing approximately 400mm high it is octagonal with moulded sides. It stands on a 2-step plinth; the lower one higher with a soffit-moulded tread and chamfered plinth. The sides of the steps are inscribed as a memorial to the dead of both world wars. The medieval cross head was formerly built into a wall near Holystreet Manor and before that is said to have stood in the Market Square. The socket stone was from the yard of Southmead House. Both are medieval but Masson-Phillips points out their different character and that they never were components of the same medieval cross. Source. E. N. Masson-Phillips. Ancient Crosses of Devon, Part 1. Trans. Devon.Assoc. 69 (1937) p. 324.

Listing NGR: SX7019787542

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.