Stump of chamfered shaft with broach-stops on square base. Overall height approximately one metre. Stands near line of former road leading to church, perhaps originally a wayside cross, but not necessarily in original position.
Crowland – Overview
Crowland is something of a special case as it has a series of boundary crosses which are said to have been erected to mark the boundaries of the lands of Crowland abbey. The history of the Crowland crosses has been
Haxey (3) Greenhill Cross
Greenhill cross is now somewhat hidden away on a much reduced green at the junction of Greenhill Road, High Street and Church Street. It has also (confusingly) been known as the Mowbray Cross (The Mowbrays were the medieval lords of Haxey manor). It shares its grassy mound (all that remains of the green, now a traffic island) with several trees which pretty much obscure it.
Kingerby
Davies, in 1915, (p.161) gives a good account of these two intriguing stones which appear to have been reused and rebuilt as gateposts on some now lost pathway from Kingerby Manor to the church. They are on private land, and permission was sought to survey and photograph them.
Swineshead (2) Stump Cross
There is a second cross in Swineshead on the corner of South Street and the road to Bicker – known as Stump Cross Lane. Nattes drew the cross c.1800 (Remains of a Cross near Swineshead) showing it, intriguingly adjacent to a milestone with VII inscribed on it. This is probably the distance to Boston.
Weston (2)
Weston’s second cross is possibly the remains of a wayside cross that was found at Beggar’s Bush crossroads in August 1895. A brief report in the Stamford Mercury of 23 August 1895 states: ‘the base of the old parish cross has been unearthed at Weston, on the road leading to St John’s. It is an interesting relic of bygone days.’