| Parish/District | Beesby with Saleby/East Lindsey |
| Location | in the churchyard of St Margaret’s Church, to the south east of the south porch |
| Category | Churchyard cross |
| National Grid Ref | TF 45779 78753 |
| Designation | Scheduled / Listed II |
| Stone Type | Limestone (?) |
| Refs | AP Survey: 14 June 1995 |
| Visits | AP: 14 June 1995 |DS/HH: 21 May 2010 |
A nice churchyard cross – surprisingly not mentioned by Davies! It is a few metres south east of the south door of St Margaret’s church at Saleby. It has a socket stone with carved heads at the corners and a fragment of shaft.
The socket stone measured 0.87m N-S by 0.83m E-W with about 0.28m showing above ground. It has a deep chamfer on the upper edge. The corners are decorated with carved heads – three of them are so eroded you can’t really make them out but the south west corner is a human head with a head-dress. The north west corner has an iron dowel set in lead as if there had been a piece of stone (a repair?) fastened on the corner.
The shaft is square in section (c.0.3m at the base) stopped to octagonal about 0.1m above the base. It is 1.24m high with holes (c. 3cm diameter) low down in the shaft on the north and south sides – they are at slightly different levels but don’t go right through. On the top of the shaft there is a single iron dowel set in lead – maybe a sundial mounting.
The shaft is in a fine grained stone (which we thought possibly sandstone) although the scheduling document says limestone.
A Stephen Lewin church, with some nice features, built in 1850 and restored in 1958. It’s presumably on the footprint of a medieval church.
