Lacon Cross is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1967. A Medieval Cross.

Lacon Cross

WRENN ID
sombre-threshold-bone
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Country
England
Date first listed
6 March 1967
Type
Cross
Period
Medieval
Source
Historic England listing

Description

SE 26 NW SE 24476665 4/136 6.3.67

SAWLEY GREEN LANE (north side, off) Lacon Cross

II

Plinth, socket stone and lower part of cross shaft. Medieval. Probably for the monks of Fountains Abbey. Gritstone. Plinth composed of flat stones forming a base approximately 1.5 metres square and 20 centimetres high. Socket stone set into centre of plinth approximately 60 centimetres square and 40 centimetres high, the top hollowed out to take the cross shaft. Shaft: square in section with roll mouldings to corners; surviving to approximate height of 1 metre. The cross was probably a route marker for travellers crossing Butterton Bridge (qv) from Warsill and the south to Fountains Abbey (qv).

Listing NGR: SE2446266658

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