Linwood churchyard cross – the shaft has considerable damage at the base
Parish/DistrictLinwood/West Lindsey
Locationc. 12m south of the nave of St Cornelius’s Church – in line with chancel arch
CategoryChurchyard cross
National Grid RefTF 11411 85670
DesignationScheduled / Listed
Stone TypeLimestone (Calcareous Tealby limestone)
RefsAP Survey, 10 March 1994; Davies, D S, 1915, Lincs N & Q, Vol XIII No.6, p.166
VisitsAP: 10 Mar 1994 | DS/DAS: 10 Apr 2015

A socket stone holding a fragment of shaft, located in the churchyard of St Cornelius’s Church, Linwood. It is c. 12m south of the chancel in line (ish) with the chancel arch. The socket stone is quite badly eroded. No chamfer or corner decorations visible. Lead lining/fixing for shaft visible due to erosion. It is made of calcareous Tealby stone – and probably the shaft is also.

The socket stone is 0.57m N-S by 0.58m E-W – Its base is partially buried with 0.2m showing above ground. The shaft fragment is 0.86m high and 0.24m N-S by 0.3m E-W at the base. The shaft is squared, stopped to plain chamfered (the chamfer is 60mm)

At its top, the shaft appears broken, not cut – no signs of any fixings. We probed around the base – nothing detected.

Davies does not mention the damage at the base of the shaft  – only that it was (in 1915) covered in ivy – DAS mused  that the damage to the shaft is too severe for erosion – is it possibly due to someone trying to cut the shaft off?

Linwood churchyard cross
Top surface of the shaft at Linwood – it appeared broken rather than cut and had no fixing marks for later uses.
Linwood

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