Early 20C postcard view of the Church of the Holy Trinity and Holy Mary the Virgin – Old Clee
Parish/DistrictOld Clee/North East Lincs
Locationpreviously in churchyard – now inside the church
CategoryChurchyard cross
National Grid RefTA 28998 08458
DesignationThe church is Listed I. The cross is mentioned in the listing
Stone TypeLimestone
RefsDavies, D S, 1915, Lincs N & Q, Vol XIII No.5, p.138;
N E Lincs HER
VisitsDS/HH: 7 Sept 2009

Davies (in c.1915) reports a section of octagonal cross shaft set into the ground on the south side of Old Clee church. It is mentioned in Pevsner, and in the listing description. It could not be found during an HER site visit in 2009 and is said to now be stored inside the church, with other worked masonry.

Visited 7/9/2009, but church locked and failed to find it, so not yet photographed.

I am grateful to Geoff Wheatley for the photograph of the Old Clee shafts below – The shaft at the front is presumably the one recorded by Davies, set externally in 1915, while the one at the rear is what he suggests may be a holy water stoup (perhaps because it has such a small socket stone?). They both look look like cross shafts to me, but I shall hold my judgement until I can record them myself.

Cross shafts inside the church of Holy Trinity and St Mary at Old Clee (photo: Geoff Wheatley)

Old Clee

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