Parish/DistrictGrasby/West Lindsey
LocationWest of the restored chancel of All Hallows church
CategoryChurchyard cross
National Grid RefTA 10217 04329
DesignationListed II
Stone typeLimestone (and sandstone restoration)
RefsAP Survey 4 Aug 1997
VisitsAP 4 Aug 1997 | DS/HH 12 Mar 2012

All Hallows church, Clixby, is the 13C chancel of a larger church which was a ruin until 1889, when the chancel was restored and a west porch added. It is now a CCT church.  The remains of the cross stand in the churchyard to the west of the church. If the nave had survived, it would have been at the west end of the nave or tower.

There is a very battered octagonal socket stone set on two modern steps. (AP suggests it was square with moulded corners now eroded to octagonal). It retains a fragment of original shaft – all the rest is restored. The original piece of shaft is 66 cms high beginning square and chamfered to octagonal. Measures 0.32m N-S by 0.3m E-W at base, tapering. It is set in the S/S with lead.

The socket stone is very battered and eroded – it is c. 0.75m across with a maximum depth of 0.38m. It is just possible it had carvings on alternate faces.

The cross was probably restored at the same time as the church (1889) by Charles Hodgson Fowler.

The battered cross base and fragment of surviving shaft of Clixby churchyard cross, restored by Hodgson Fowler in 1889.

Clixby cross shaft – set in the socket stone with lead.

Clixby

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