| Parish/District | Gunby and Stainby/South Kesteven |
| Location | c. 3m south of the nave in the churchyard of St Nicholas’s church, Gunby |
| Category | Churchyard cross |
| National Grid Ref | SK 91274 21546 |
| Designation | Scheduled / Listed II |
| Stone type | Limestone |
| Refs | AP survey 8 Dec 1993; Davies, D. S., 1913, Lincs N & Q, Vol XII No.5, p.141; Harding, N S, 1937, Bonney’s Church Notes, p.280; |
| Visits | AP 8 Dec 1993 | DS/HH not visited | DS 6 June 2025 BEES! |
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.
Archdeacon Bonney visited on 28 Augudst 1848 and notes: ‘The stump of a cross S. side Ch. yard’.(p.280)
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