| Parish/District | Ulceby/North Lincolnshire |
| Location | about 8m south of the south aisle of St Nicholas church |
| Category | Churchyard cross |
| National Grid Ref | TA 10359 14581 |
| Designation | Listed II |
| Stone Type | Limestone |
| Refs | Davies, D S, 1915, Lincolnshire Notes & Queries, Vol XIII No.6, p.221 |
| Visits | DS/HH: 12 March 2012 |
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.
The square area of paving around the base is about 2m square and is very uneven and fragmentary – it is unlikely to be medieval. The step is is c.1.32 m square by 0.18m deep, and is set into, rather than onto, the paving. It is composed of several large limestone slabs.
The plinth (0.79m square by 0.15m deep) rests on the step and is formed of two rectangular slabs. It supports the socket stone which is nearly square (0.64m N-S x 0.61m E-W) and 0.48m high with a chamfered top edge. The socket is central and lead lined.
The shaft is 0.32m N-S x 0.25m E-W and 0.66m high, and has stops chamfering to octagonal straight out of the socket. The shaft is roughly broken off at the top and has a series of lead and iron fixings set into it. It has clearly been converted to a sundial, and when listed in 1985, still had the sundial with an inscription Rich Faulding Ulceby Parish, 1720 and a replacement (C19-C20) gnomon. Interestingly, Davies does not mention a sundial in 1915.
