Description

SX 79 SE CHERITON BISHOP CHERITON CROSS

10/41 Cheriton Cross
26.8.65 (formerly listed as Village Cross)

II

Wayside Cross now War Memorial. Medieval, restored and repositioned in C20.
Granite. Small (approx. 1.22m high) Type B cross, octagonal in section with 2
short arms (west side restored), set in massive granite socket stone which is
square in section with heavily weathered and indistinct corner shoulders making top
surface octagonal. It was moved approx. 20m north of former site during road
widening operations of 1969. Remaining upper part of cross, missing the greater
part of its shaft. Restored, according to tablet at rear, to the Glory of God and
to memory of men of Cheriton Bishop who laid down their lives in World War I and
II. Scheduled Ancient Monument (404).
E Masson-Phillips. Ancient Stone Crosses of Devon Part 2
Trans. Devon. Assoc. 70 (1938) p.326-7.

Listing NGR: SX7731193005

This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 8 December 2016.

External Links

• Historic England Listing

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Recommended Books

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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5