Gunby cross – just south of the nave of St Nicholas church (photo: Alan Murray Rust)
Parish/DistrictGunby and Stainby/South Kesteven
Locationc. 3m south of the nave in the churchyard of St Nicholas’s church, Gunby
CategoryChurchyard cross
National Grid RefSK 91274 21546
DesignationScheduled / Listed II
Stone typeLimestone
RefsAP survey 8 Dec 1993; Davies, D. S., 1913, Lincs N & Q, Vol XII No.5, p.141. 
VisitsAP 8 Dec 1993 | DS/HH not visited

A cross base with a section of surviving shaft, 3m south of the nave of St Nicholas church, Gunby. The socket-stone is c. 0.66m square in section and stands up to 0.32m above the irregular ground surface. It is plain with chamfered upper corners.

The shaft is set in the centre of the socket-stone and is rectangular in section at the base rising through chamfered corners in tapering octagonal section to a height of 1.45m. At the top of the shaft is a small four-sided terminal, chamfered to a flat tip above.

This is a very odd top . . . is it a remnant of the original cross head (bit low) or has it been reshaped after destruction?

Gunby churchyard cross – Note the odd top – is it a remnant of the cross head? (photo: Bob Harvey)
Gunby

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