Churchyard cross

Addlethorpe has a fine (if now somewhat wonky) churchyard cross with two steps. This 1829 engraving of Addlethorpe church shows the cross stump on the right.

Alkborough has a curious spiral shaped cross shaft in the churchyard. Tradition says this was caused by sharpening scythes on the stone , but this seems unlikely.

Anderby churchyard cross, comprising a socket-stone containing a section of shaft, stands near to a tree to the south of the tower of St Andrew’s Church.

Anwick’s churchyard cross has a most unusual fluted shaft set into a layered socket stone. It is unique in the county. (So unique it may not be a cross shaft!)

A fragment of decorated cross shaft believed to be from Aunsby churchyard, now used as a garden ornament. It was said to be ‘Found in a delivery of building rubble that came from the churchyard’ in around 1970.

In the churchyard of St Margaret’s at Bag Enderby there is the socket stone for a medieval cross, 3.15m south of the south porch

There is a  memorial cross in St Martin’s churchyard at Barholm and Stowe erected in 1919, to the memory of Captain Thomas Carew Trollope Bart. of the 1/1 Lincolnshire Yeomanry who died in 1915. It is listed as a war memorial although it is not a village memorial in the usual sense as it only commemorates one person. It is in the form of a standing cross with a crucifix head and re-uses a medieval socket stone which was presumably already located in the churchyard, although there are no records of it prior to this re-use.

A cross base/socket stone for a standing cross has been placed on the concrete slabs at the east side of the south porch of Barrowby church and is obviously not in situ.

A square socket stone 0.68m x 0.70m stepped down to octagonal the stepped down again to smaller octagon – The socket is square.

A stone shaft with a stepped base standing at a crazy angle – very unusual but presumably a cross shaft (it’s scheduled as one!)

Cross base and part of shaft. The cross base has shields in quatrefoils at the centre of each side. There is no detail on the shields. The HER gives the date as 14th C – but I guess that’s just a default statement.

The churchyard cross at Benniworth stands alone in a completely cleared area of the graveyard, 10m south of the tower – it is an almost surreal setting. The socket stone is massive but has a horizontal fault two-thirds up, that makes it look like two stones – indeed, Davies took it be so, but the unevenness of the joint confirms it is one stone with a major fault – the crack has been repaired with mortar in some places, which has dropped out in others.

The remains of a medieval standing cross survive in the churchyard of Holy Trinity church at Bilsby, to the south east of the church porch. The socket stone, which is now partially buried stands about 0.18m above present ground level and is about 0.85m square with rounded edges.

There is a splendid cross situated about 3m to the east of the south porch of St Mary and St Gabriel’s church at Binbrook. Arguably it is a complete cross with base, shaft and head – although I have to say that my first impression was that only the upper part of the shaft had survived and had been re-erected in the socket stone.

The churchyard cross at Blyton is a tiny little thing – it would be easy to miss it if you weren’t searching for it – but just in the right place to the south and slightly east of the south door.

There is a cross head set in a socket stone c. 5m south of the door of St Peter’s church at Bottesford in North Lincolnshire. The socket stone is square and is completely undecorated – it is so plain that it’s hard to imagine that it was a medieval cross base

There is a really good cross at Bradley church – the shaft is complete and parts of the knop survive, but the head is absent. It is sited about 6m to the south of the nave of the church.

The Lincs HER (and the sign on the monument) suggests that the Brant Broughton war memorial was created from an existing medieval cross base in Brant Broughton churchyard.

There is a churchyard cross about 12m south of St Helen’s church, Brigsley, which has a socket stone anda portion of shaft surviving (overall height c. 1.5m). The base stands on some stone but there are no steps. The base is nearly square 0.71m (E-W) by 0.69m (N-S) with corners cut to octagonal and pointed stops. The socket stone is c.0.45m high.

A good standing cross survival, just 6m SE of  the S door of  St Philip’s, Brinkhill, with the base, shaft and knop complete and a restored head added.

Close to the south door of St Margaret’s church at Bucknall there is a limestone block/slab c. 0.8m square with a chamfer visible on one side. It is known as a tithe stone, and it is said it was used as the place for the paying of tithes.

Remains of a medieval cross at the site of the deserted medieval village of Castle Carlton. The remains lie within the churchyard of the former Holy Cross Church, and comprise a square-shaped cross base and a small part of the cross shaft.

Caythorpe Churchyard cross was restored in 1906. Historic drawings suggest it was once a village or market cross, moved into the churchyard and restored in the format of a churchyard cross

The cross is located c. 5m SE of the S transept of St Peter’s church, Claypole. It has been restored as a war memorial using surviving fragments of a medieval cross.

All Hallows church, Clixby, is the 13th century chancel of a larger church which was a ruin until 1889, when the chancel was restored and a west porch added. It is now a CCT church.  The remains of the cross stand in the churchyard to the west of the church. If the nave had survived, it would have been at the west end of the nave or tower.

Crowle churchyard cross is a large and imposing structure – so much so, that one can’t help but wonder if it was once the market cross, now come to rest in the churchyard – Crowle had a market charter from 1305 and Cross Street forms part of the old market place, although there are no references to a market cross.

A cross base and part of a shaft survive SW of the porch in the churchyard of St Andrews at Denton.  The socket-stone is approximately 0.77m square in section and stands up to 0.27m above the present ground surface. It is undecorated with a moulded and chamfered upper part which develops into a top of octagonal section; the upper edge is slightly chamfered.

In the churchyard of St Michael’s church, about 12m SW of the tower, we find a worryingly ramshackle cross. It has two steps, a socket stone and a section of shaft. There are modern (19C?) repairs holding the shaft in place, but is much in need of some masonry conservation.

A battered fragment of shaft survives at Farlesthorpe – We struggled to find it as the churchyard was overgrown, but eventually located it 15m south of the west porch of the church at the top of a slope. It is a fragment of octagonal cross shaft – no base visible. The shaft was 18 cms (across) octagonal and there were 4 dowel holes in its upper surface.

Firsby’s churchyard cross is mentioned in Allen (1834, p.147): ‘In the churchyard, at a short distance from the porch is a pillar of stone, which it is probable, at one time had a sun dial on its top’, and in Bonney’s Church Notes (for 1847): ‘Stump of cross S. side of the churchyard’ and Davies describes it thus: ‘The lower half of the base is square, and the upper half octagonal. It measures 31ins. by 32ins. The shaft is 5ft. 2ins. long and x111/2 ins. square at the bottom.’

Just a lonesome socket stone in the churchyard of All Saints at Fosdyke. It is a single block of limestone, c. 0.76m square with moulded and chamfered corners rising to an upper surface of octagonal section. It now is a maximum height of 0.3m above the present ground surface, the lower part of the stone being buried. On the upper surface of the stone is a rectangular socket for the cross shaft – now filled with water.

Freiston is an interesting case as the church here (St James) was originally a Benedictine Priory until dissolution in 1539. It is possible (but unlikely) that it served the local community as a church during its monastic phase, but after dissolution the nave of the monastic church was retained and converted into a parish church and the rest of the monastic structures were abandoned. The ‘churchyard’ cross is some distance from the church (c. 110m WNW) and an engraving from Thompson (1856) shows the cross not in a churchyard, but on open ground with a set of stocks adjacent.

There is just a socket stone at Friesthorpe, about  5m south of the south door of St Peter’s church. It is c.0.63 x 0.60m with simple chamfer on the upper edge. It is partly buried, with about 0.24m of it visible above ground. The socket is rectangular (0.21 x 0.23m) and is lined with lead. A small fragment of shaft survives in the very base of the socket.

Friskney’s remarkable  churchyard cross is first reported in Oldfield’s History of Wainfleet (1829, p.182) where he states: ‘Near the south gate of the churchyard is an ancient stone having a hole in the centre, in which was formerly fixed a stone pillar, either for the support of the rood cross or of a sundial. On the four corners of this stone are the mutilated figures of a man, a lion, an ox and an eagle.’

Fulstow’s churchyard cross is south east of the south porch of St Lawrence’s church. It comprises a socket stone set on a single step, with a surviving portion of shaft.

This is a wonderful muddle and miscellany of a cross. – There is a drawing of Gedney church, including the cross, done by J C Nattes c.1800 and although the cross is incidental to the drawing, Nattes has drawn it in its five-sided form (sort of) and shows a tall base and socket stone with a large piece of surviving shaft.

Great Steeping has an important cross base in the churchyard which is in poor condition and in need of detailed recording.

Grimoldby has a fine medieval cross base having an unusually tall section of cross shaft (2.64m). This has been extended and given a modern cross head relatively recently.

The cross is presently situated in the churchyard, c.10m south of the south transept entrance to St James’s church. It is said (in the HER) to have been moved from the market place in 1847 – As the old market place is only a couple of hundred metres to the east, that seems highly probable, although the HER comments that ‘previously the stump and pedestal were on the North side of the church, while part of the stem was found elsewhere. The socket may predate the rest of the cross’.

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.

There is a cross base with a fragment of shaft c. 8.5m south of the nave of St Benedict’s Church at Haltham on Bain. There are some interesting stones which have been placed on the cross base, but none seem to relate to the cross itself.

A socket stone at Healing converted (in a most unseemly fashion) into a sundial.

Heapham churchyard cross is c. 5.5m south of the door of All Saints. It was drawn by Nattes when he sketched Heapham church in 1793

Heckington has a rather fine cross in the churchyard, located about 8m SW of the south transept of St Andrew’s. A substantial socket stone is set on a low plinth which is on top of a set of three steps – this would not be out of place in a market place

Since 1931 the parish of Howell has been combined with Asgarby. The churchyard cross at St Oswald’s Church, Howell, stands upon three steps (one of which is buried). They support a large socket-stone containing a stump of shaft c.1.5m high.

The strange tale of Huttoft churchyard cross . . . Davies tells us: ‘This cross was restored in the year 1895, but unfortunately it was blown down in a gale during 1903, and very much damaged. The present Rector and Churchwardens carefully gathered the broken portions and had the cross so skilfully re-erected and restored that the damage is hardly noticeable.’

In the churchyard of St Andrew’s, at Immingham, there is a socket stone mounted on a brick base – presumably to serve as a sundial. The stone is c. 0.65m square and c. 0.5m deep and has a fragment of broken shaft, still set in lead, in the socket which is cut flush with the top surface of the base. There are a series of fixing holes and a slot cut into its surface, typical of sundial fixings.

The cross at SS Peter & Paul, Ingoldmells was ‘restored’ and converted to a war memorial which was unveiled on Sunday 5 September 1920. The original components used in the war memorial cross are the socket stone and a short length of the shaft.

The remains of a standing cross survive in the churchyard of St Bartholomew’s at Keelby. There are the remains of a single stone step (or stone base) a socket stone and a section of cross shaft.

There is an interesting collection of stone objects in the churchyard at Kelstern – only one of which may relate to a standing cross. The grouping of stones is on the south side of the church, about 7m south of the nave, in line with the chancel arch, and comprises a socket stone, a possible shaft and a pile of stone fragments.  They will be described in this single report.

The churchyard cross at Kettlethorpe was restored to be the village war memorial in 1919, although the names of the fallen are inscribed on tablets in the church, and not on the cross itself.

In St Andrew’s churchyard there is a socket stone, now well hidden away under the canopy of a great yew tree by the south door of the church. It was covered in ivy on our visit, which we cleared away for examination of stone.

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.

Little Steeping cross was restored, as part of a wider church restoration project, in 1913. There are several newspaper reports of the reopening of the church and rededication of the cross on 24 June 1913. The plinth, socket stone and a very short section of shaft are thought to be medieval.

A socket stone with a piece of repaired shaft, 6m south of the porch in the churchyard of St Swithun’s at Long Bennington.

A cross base and piece of shaft just inside the gate (to the left) in St Mary and St Peter’s churchyard. The socket stone is c.0.7m square with a chamfer, with a short length of octagonal shaft standing next to it.

St Nicholas, Lutton, is a superb pre-Reformation brick church (restored 1859), which presumably had a medieval predecessor. There was a small socket stone on the left hand side (W) of the door which was photographed by Hilary in 1989.

A restored (1904) medieval cross in the churchyard of St Helen’s Church, 5m south of the south door.

The churchyard cross at Marshchapel is sited c.10m south of the porch. It has a partly buried square socket stone c. 0.9 x 0.9m with about 0.35m above ground. The upper edge is chamfered and there is an unusual ‘overhang’ worked into the top of the stone.

The charming 17th century sundial in the churchyard of St Mary’s in Marston is thought to re-use a massive medieval socket stone as its base – all the other elements of the sundial (plinth, shaft and head) appear to be later.

Davies, writing in 1915, describes a cross base in Marton churchyard. He notes: ‘On the south side of the church stands a cross consisting of two steps, base, and an unusually long shaft’. He gives measurements for all the surviving elements of the cross. No cross is shown in Marton churchyard on early O.S. maps, but Monson’s Church notes of 1835 (p.261) records a cross shaft, and there is a Nattes drawing of Marton in 1793, showing the cross.

It seems that Mavis Enderby cross was restored from just a 1.11m section of surviving cross shaft. It is the base section of the shaft, 0.3m square, rising through stopped chamfers to a tapering octagonal form.

The base of a cross and part of the shaft in the churchyard of St Thomas of Canterbury’s church at Mumby. The socket stone is now partly buried with c.0.33m above the present ground surface. The socket stone is c.0.86m square – the upper part of the stone is octagonal in section with moulded corners and is deeply chamfered along the upper edge.

There are the remains of a possible socket stone in the churchyard of All Saints church at Nettleham.

There is a socket stone amongst the gravestones, just a few metres south of the south porch of St Nicholas’s church at North Cotes. Although only the socket stone remains, its position close to the main church door is probably the original location for a churchyard cross.

There is a cross in the churchyard of St Helen’s at North Ormsby, but the church was made redundant in 1980 and subsequently sold for conversion to a private dwelling. It has not been possible to access the site for survey or photography.

There is a restored cross in the churchyard of St Mary’s at North Somercotes, located to the south of the west end of the church. The cross head, which is modern, takes the form of an ungainly cross with splayed ends and chamfered edges.

This is Revd D S Davies’s own church, so it’s right and proper there is a churchyard cross here. It comprises a socket stone with a portion of shaft . . . although the two may not actually belong together.

The churchyard cross at St Nicholas church, Partney, is remarkable on account of the deeply carved figures of the evangelists on the four corners of its socket stone. The winged symbols of a man, a lion, an ox and an eagle (for Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) are depicted.

There is an octagonal socket stone in the churchyard of St Margaret’s church, Quadring, about 10m south of the nave. It is not thought to be in situ.

Raithby churchyard cross was restored in 1903. Davies records: ‘. . .  On a piece of white marble, sunk into the face of the base, is this inscription “ To the | Glory of God | this cross is restored | in loving memory of Sister Constance | 1903.”’.

William Marrat, writing on Reepham in 1816, notes: The base and steps of the cemetery cross remain yet in front of the south door [of the church]. A hundred years later, Davies reports only one step (almost buried in the ground) 1.78m square with a socket stone 0.94m square by 0.51m high and with a socket 0.3m square.

The churchyard cross at Roughton is unusual in that it has a rectangular socket stone – the greater majority are square. Roughton’s socket  stone measures 0.6m E-W x 0.44m N-S. There is c. 0.2m showing above ground.

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.

There is a churchyard cross directly in line with the doorway of St Margaret’s church at Sibsey. It has a socket stone, which is set on another stone (or a plinth), with a portion of shaft surviving.

The village of Somersby is mostly famous as the birthplace of Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 – 1892), the Poet Laureate for much of the Victorian period. But Somerby’s other claim to fame is its churchyard cross which is a fine example of a 14th century standing cross which has survived intact. It has been extensively photographed, drawn and discussed in print – it is Lincolnshire’s best known standing cross.

The churchyard cross at South Elkington is very close (3.5m) to the SW corner of the south porch, although the porch was presumably rebuilt in the 1840s restoration and may be larger than any medieval predecessor.
A socket stone with a levelled stump of shaft survives. It is interesting to note that when Davies recorded the stone in 1915, there was 0.2m above ground; in 1998, AP measured 0.15m and by 2024 there was only 0.12m showing above ground.

A socket stone with a portion of shaft survives in the churchyard of St Leonard’s at South Ormsby. Its position is most odd as it is at the extreme edge of the churchyard trapped between two fences – the iron railings of the churchyard, and a later post and rail fence for the field. Arguably, it is on the correct side of the church, for the main door/porch is on this north side, but it is unusually distant from the church. There is a drawing of the church by J C Nattes from c.1790 – this shows only the cross, no gravestones, and it looks to be far nearer the church, although it is difficult to be sure. It seems likely that the cross has been moved out towards the churchyard perimeter to permit new (perhaps high status) 19th century graves to be introduced.

The remains of a standing cross survive in the churchyard of St Peter’s Church to the south east of the south porch. Now a CCT church.

There has been a church at Stainton from at least the thirteenth century and probably from long before that. In 1795 the incumbent, George Bassett, applied for and was granted a faculty, stating that ‘the parish church of Stainton being a very old building suddenly fell down and was obliged to be entirely rebuilt . . . the parishioners have erected and built a very good church on the scite of the old one.’ The resultant church is thus entirely eighteenth century, incorporating a few medieval features from the original church. These now include a large octagonal font bowl with ‘ballflower’ decoration.
In 1846, Archdeacon Bonney, reportedly found this font bowl lying upside down in the churchyard (Harding, 1937, pp137-8). Everson and Stocker think the base on which the font now sits is the spurred base of a twelfth-century pier shaft, however Hilary and I think it more likely to be a socket stone from a lost churchyard cross.

The churchyard cross at SS peter and Paul, Stallingborough, is located 20m south of the west end of the church adjacent to the pathway leading to the church. It has been converted to a sundial, which is dated 1725.

There is a churchyard cross about 10m south of the nave of All Saints church in Stapleford. The cross comprises a socket stone with a possible fragment of shaft (or possibly not) in the socket.

There is a fine churchyard cross 9m south of the nave of St Peter’s church at Stixwould, although it has an alarming lean to the south.

Stoke Rochford has a splendid, reconstructed, pre-Conquest churchyard cross in the churchyard. It is fully described in the Corpus of Anglo Saxon Stone Structure

Sudbrooke has a churchyard cross near to the south door of the church of St Edward the Confessor. Its origins and history are not clear: White’s 1856 Directory (p.158) records: ‘The church (St Edward) is a plain brick building, and has in its burial ground the remains of an ancient cross’.

There is a standing cross 4m south of the door to St Mary’s church Tetford. It comprises a socket stone and a fragment of shaft. The socket stone has armorial shields deeply carved on its north and west faces.

There are the remains of a cross near the path leading to the north door of St Peter and St Paul’s Church at Tetney. This is the main door of the church and the positioning of the cross probably reflects that route. The cross comprises a socket stone with a short length of surviving shaft.

There is quite a grand cross in the St Lawrence’s churchyard at Thornton, about 10m south of the nave. It comprises three steps, a shallow plinth and a socket stone containing a portion of shaft which is decorated with fleurons.

There is a standing cross about 25m south east of the chancel of of St Peter’s church at Threekingham. When visited by AP in 1993 and by Hilary and me  in 2000, it was almost completely engulfed in mature ivy and pretty much defied normal survey. It comprises a socket stone and a portion of shaft.

There are remains of a standing cross in the churchyard of St Germain’s church at Thurlby, located c.13m west of the tower. The setting is under a fabulous cedar tree although, sadly, this has become storm damaged in recent years. The cross comprises a ‘plinth’, a single step, a socket stone and a portion of cross shaft.

There is a standing cross just 2.6m from the west door of St Peter’s church at Toynton St Peter. It comprises a socket stone and a sizeable portion of cross shaft. It is a most interesting cross because the socket stone has figure carvings on its corners – but the figures appear to be upside-down  – In other words, the socket stone was in use the other way up  for something else, before it was a socket stone. Pevsner suggests it was a square font bowl, inverted and converted to form a cross base.

There is part of a medieval cross shaft erected close by the churchyard fence about 8m SW of the west tower of St Mary’s church at Tydd St Mary. It may have been discovered during grave-digging and re-erected here. There does not appear to be a socket stone below it.

There is a churchyard cross about 8m south of the nave of St Nicholas church, Ulceby – adjacent to the path to the south porch. It is all square in plan and comprises a socket stone set on a plinth with a short piece of cross shaft. The base is set in a roughly paved area in an otherwise largely cleared area of churchyard.

There is a churchyard cross south east of the south porch of St Andrew’s Church in Utterby. When Hilary first photographed this cross in December 1991, its two steps were visible but the socket stone was engulfed in ivy. Six years later when Alison surveyed it for scheduling, all was completely covered by ivy (see her survey drawing) and it seems she must have assessed it by feel alone! Thankfully when Hilary and I visited in 2007, it had been cleared and we were able to make a measured survey of the stones.

Here is a cross base which has escaped designation and that none of us have seen – except for Richard Croft who photographed it in 2014. It is in the churchyard of St Margaret’s church – now in private ownership – a fact which dissuaded both AP and DS/HH from visiting at the time, although current owners are (reportedly) happy to allow access.

There is a standing cross in the churchyard of St Mary’s church, about 6m south east of the south porch. A portion of the shaft is visible, but the socket stone is buried.

Archdeacon Bonney visited Waithe on 6 August 1846 and recorded: ‘The remains of the cross on S. side of the ch. yard.’
James Fowler restored Waithe church in 1861 and is presumed to have restored the churchyard cross during the process. The only medieval parts to survive are the socket stone, and possibly parts of the lowest step.

There is a standing cross shaft amongst gravestones to the south west of the south porch of St Nicholas church in Walcot. Records suggest this is a shaft only, with no socket stone below, but none of us have checked.

West Rasen held a market charter from 1219 and it is thought the market place lay close to the old (packhorse) bridge. No market cross is known . . . unless the rather fine cross in the churchyard of All Saints is the market cross relocated to the churchyard? – There is a local tradition that this is so.

West Torrington has an intriguing churchyard cross. When Archdeacon Bonney visited St Mary’s on 11 October 1847, he noted ‘There is the stump of a cross on S. side of ye ch. yard.’ By  the time David Davies surveyed it c.1915, it had been successively restored and memorialised.

There is a particularly fine standing cross at All Saints church, Westborough, which does not appear to have been altered or moved. It is located c. 5m from the south porch and is one of a small group of Lincolnshire crosses (with Bradley and Brinkhill) that seems to have survived intact up to the knop.

Whaplode has an interesting cross, situated in the churchyard of St Mary’s.  It is shown on Nattes’s drawing of the church of c.1800 and certainly seems to be within the churchyard at that time – but it is in a very odd position which does not relate to the church in the way that churchyard crosses usually do – i.e. sited close to the main entrance or former main entrance.

Winterton held a market charter from 1334 and it is possible that the cross remains in All Saints churchyard may be a relocated market cross. However, its position, c.4m from the main entrance door to the church is also perfectly valid for a churchyard cross. The cross is shown in the same position in J C Nattes’s drawing of Winterton church c.1800.

When Archdeacon Bonney (p.184) visited Winthorpe on 25 October 1847, he commented: ‘Stump of a cross on the S. side of Ch. yard. Ch. yard ample and fenced with a ditch and post and rail.’  The Boston Guardian of 2 July 1880, reporting the restoration of the church fabric, noted: ‘In the churchyard is an ancient stone cross raised on three steps, the pedestal of which supports a dial’.  Davies recorded the cross in 1915 and states: ‘The base … is bevelled at the top and has a shield on each side …The shaft is carved for about 9 in. at the bottom’. He does not mention the sundial. Early postcard photographs of Winthorpe, St Mary’s, show the cross stump near the church porch.

There are no early references to a churchyard cross at St Andrew’s in Witham on the Hill, and Davies does not record a cross in the churchyard, although he does record a village cross: ‘The base, with a portion of shaft, stands in the Park just outside the village. It was removed by General Johnson many years ago from the hamlet of Lound in this parish.’ More recent attempts to locate this village cross have failed and it seems quite possible that it is the elements of this village cross that were brought to the churchyard in 1920, to create the present war memorial.

There is a potential socket stone placed against the south wall of St Andrew’s church. It is 0.8m square and 0.35m high with moulded corners in a similar design to many cross bases.

The cross remains in the churchyard of St Mary and St Nicholas at Wrangle are a bit of an oddity – and may not even be the parts of a standing cross. They are located a few metres south of the south porch of the church and comprise a socket stone with a portion of shaft, having a bronze sundial set on the top. They are in the right place for a cross – and also in the right place for a sundial!