| Parish/District | Dorrington/North Kesteven |
| Location | In a gravelled enclosure adjacent to 75 Main Street, Dorrington |
| Category | Village cross |
| National Grid Ref | TF 08178 52894 |
| Designation | Listed II |
| Stone type | Limestone |
| Refs | Davies, D S, 1916, Lincs N & Q, Vol XIV pp.21-31 and pp.55-64 |
| Visits | DS/HH: 29 June 2006 |
Dorrington village cross was located on the village green adjacent to the village pump when mapped by the O.S. in 1888 (see map below). Trollope (p.229) says part of this green was known as ‘Play Garth’ and it also had a ‘remarkable oak. When we visited in June 2006 the cross was enclosed in the rose garden of No. 73 Main Street and inaccessible (although we photographed it over the wall). By 2019, the bungalow had been demolished and a small development of new houses was in progress. The cross is now set apart from the adjacent houses (closest to No. 75) in a small enclosed and gravelled area.
Its positioning is intriguing, as the medieval church (and presumably village) is some distance away to the NW. Is it a later (17C) village green and if so, where did the cross come from?
We took no measurements (and the cross does not appear to scheduled) but we noted that it was a quite tall, but small, square socket stone (splayed out at its base) with about 2m of octagonal shaft surviving.
