| Parish/District | Grasby/West Lindsey |
| Location | West of the restored chancel of All Hallows church |
| Category | Churchyard cross (brought from Great Limber in 1890) |
| National Grid Ref | TA 10217 04329 |
| Designation | Listed II |
| Stone type | Limestone (and sandstone restoration) |
| Refs | AP Survey 4 Aug 1997 |
| Visits | AP 4 Aug 1997 | DS/HH 12 Mar 2012 |
All Hallows church, Clixby, is the 13th century 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 but are a recent (1890) addition to the churchyard.
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 0.66m high beginning square and chamfered to octagonal. It measures 0.32m N-S by 0.3m E-W at base, tapering. It is set in the socket with lead.
The socket stone is very battered and eroded – it is c. 0.75m across with a maximum height of 0.38m. It is just possible it had carvings on alternate faces. The restored cross is 4.6m high and the head is a gabled crucifix bearing figures of Christ and of the Madonna.
According to report in the Stamford Mercury of 7 November 1890 (see below), the cross base and stump had, until recently, formed the column for a sundial at Limber Grange, until donated to the church by Lord Yarborough. It had been restored through the efforts of the vicar, Revd Westbrook, who had modelled the new head on the Somersby cross. The restored cross was unveiled by the Earl of Yarborough on Tuesday 4 November 1890.
It seems then that the Clixby cross may have started life as a village cross or boundary cross at Great Limber . . . . or maybe it really IS Clixby’s churchyard cross which was removed to Limber Grange when the church was ruinous and unused and was returned following the restoration of the chancel.
All Hallows Church was declared redundant in 1973 and is now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
The battered cross base and fragment of surviving shaft of the cross in Clixby churchyard, restored in 1890.
Clixby cross shaft – set in the socket stone with lead.
