LINCOLNSHIRE

Davies, D. S., 1912-13, ‘Ancient Stone Crosses in Kesteven’, Lincolnshire Notes and Queries, XII, 129-50; Davies, D S, 1914-15, ‘Ancient Stone Crosses in Lindsey and Holland Divisions of Lincolnshire’, Lincolnshire Notes and Queries, XIII, 129-57, 161-80, 212-23, 225-9; Davies, D S, 1916-17, ‘Additional Stone Crosses’, Lincolnshire Notes and Queries, XIV, 21-31,  55-64.

Davies, D. S., 1926, ‘Pre-Conquest Carved Stones in Lincolnshire’ in The Archaeological Journal, Vol 83, pp. 1-20

Everson, P. and Stocker, D., 1999, The Corpus of Anglo Saxon Stone Sculpture, Volume 5, Lincolnshire, The British Academy, O. U. P.

GENERAL

Haines, G. R., 1969, Discovering Crosses; a Guide to Market and Commemorative Crosses of Our Towns and Villages, Shire Publications, Tring.

Priestland, P and N, 1976, In Memory of Eleanor – The Story of the Eleanor Crosses, Ashbracken, Radcliffe-on-Trent.

Rimmer, A., 1873, Ancient Stone Crosses of England, Virtue & Co, London.

Vallance, A., 1920, Old Crosses and Lychgates, Batsford, London.

OTHER LINCOLNSHIRE SOURCES

Crosses are mentioned and described in a wide variety of Lincolnshire books – I have found the following variously useful:

Pevsner, N. and Harris, J., 1989 (2nd Ed), The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, Penguin Books. Pevsner often mentions crosses, of all types, but rarely gives much detail.

Harding, N. S. (Ed), 1937, Bonney’s Church Notes, Being Notes on the Churches in the Archdeaconry of Lincoln 1845-1848, Keyworth, Lincoln. Useful snapshot of the 1840s – but Bonney is even briefer in his churchyard descriptions than Pevsner.

White, W., 1856 (1969 reprint), History Gazetteer and Directory of Lincolnshire etc. David & Charles. – Not good at mentioning churchyard crosses, but will often comment (briefly) on village and market crosses.

Cox, J. C., 1916?, Lincolnshire, Methuen, London. Mainly church descriptions, but he occasionally (and inconsistently) mentions churchyard and village crosses.

The following books contain descriptions of the parishes in their study area and are sometimes useful sources for records of crosses:

  • Conway Walter, J., 1904, Records Historical and Antiquarian of Parishes Round Horncastle, Morton, Horncastle.
  • Oldfield, E., 1829, A Topographical and Historical Account of Wainfleet ,etc.
  • Thompson, P., 1856 (1997 reprint), The History and Antiquities of Boston, Heritage Lincolnshire.
  • Trollope, E., 1872 (1999 reprint), Sleaford and the Wapentakes of Flaxwell and Aswardhurn, Heritage Lincolnshire .

THE DRAWINGS OF JOHN CLAUDE NATTES

Joseph Banks commissioned Nattes to draw the churches and other places of note across much of eastern Lincolnshire. There are many drawings, now bound in four volumes, ranging in date from c.1790 to 1805. Nattes also sketched several village crosses and often included surviving churchyard crosses when he was drawing a church. He is a most useful source, and often the earliest illustration of a surviving cross. The Nattes Drawings are available to view in the Lincolnshire Archives. (Ref No. NATTES)

REGIONAL OR COUNTY CROSSES PUBLICATIONS

Graham, L., 1993, The Crosses of the North Yorkshire Moors, North Riding Publishing, Whitby.

Harrison, B., 2001, Dartmoor Stone Crosses, Devon Books, Tiverton.

Ogilvie, E. and Sleightholme, A., 1994, An Illustrated Guide to the Crosses on the North Yorkshire Moors, Village Green Press, York.

Preston-Jones, A., Langdon, A. and Okasha, E., 2021, Ancient and High Crosses of Cornwall, University of Exeter Press.

Sharpe, N. T., 2002, Crosses of the Peak District, Bookcraft, Midsomer Norton.

Trubshaw, R. N., 1990, Ancient Crosses of Leicestershire and Rutland, Heart of Albion press, Loughborough.