Cross In Churchyard About 11 Metres North Of Tower, Church Of St Mary The Virgin

ST4817 STOKE SUB HAMDON CP EAST STOKE (South side) 7/285 Cross in churchyard about 11 metres north of tower, Church of St. Mary the Virgin 19.4.61 GV II Churchyard cross. C13 top, base of 1911. Ham stone ashlar. Octagonal 2- step base, the lower about 2 metres across, then octagonal plinth chamfered on top edges, with inscription off south-east and east faces; tapering octagonal shaft with floriated ball top, on which is set the medieval cross, on one side having a carving of a seated Virgin Mary, on the other the crucifixion, with Mary and John; the ends have trefoiled arched viches with figures, one a mitred abbot. The cross head originally iron a roadside cross, the base of which has disappeared by the early C19, and found built into a garden wall; the base and shaft set up to commemorate Robert Chaffey, died 1911, and also the Coronation of King George V: possibly to the design of C.E. Ponting. (Pooley, Old Crosses of somerset, 1877).

Listing NGR: ST4840217297