Parish/District | Blyton/West Lindsey |
Location | south-east of the south door of St Martin’s church |
Category | Churchyard cross |
National Grid Ref | SK 85333 94782 |
Designation | Scheduled |
Stone type | Limestone |
Refs | AP survey 22 Jan 1998 |
Visits | AP: 22 Jan 1998 | DS/HH: 4 June 2008 |
The churchyard cross at Blyton is a tiny little thing – it would be easy to miss it if you weren’t searching for it – but just in the right place to the south and slightly east of the south door. This is a little stump of a shaft standing just 10 inches high. It is firmly set in its buried socket stone – we could just see the socket stone – 6 – 8 inches of it were visible on the W, S & E sides (buried on N) – Not really sure if we could see its edges, and it is probably bigger than it looks. The stump of shaft is rectangular section (12” x 10” approx) eroded at its base where it meets the socket stone. (Although the SM Desc says it is octagonal).
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