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Cross in Churchyard About 11 Metres North of Tower, Church of St Mary the Virgin

A Grade II Listed Building in Stoke sub Hamdon, Somerset

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.9528 / 50°57'10"N

Longitude: -2.7359 / 2°44'9"W

OS Eastings: 348402

OS Northings: 117297

OS Grid: ST484172

Mapcode National: GBR MJ.NBP9

Mapcode Global: FRA 564L.KXN

Plus Code: 9C2VX737+4J

Entry Name: Cross in Churchyard About 11 Metres North of Tower, Church of St Mary the Virgin

Listing Date: 19 April 1961

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1260314

English Heritage Legacy ID: 440780

ID on this website: 101260314

Location: St Mary's Church, Highway, Somerset, TA14

County: Somerset

District: South Somerset

Civil Parish: Stoke sub Hamdon

Traditional County: Somerset

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset

Tagged with: Monumental cross

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Description


ST4817 STOKE SUB HAMDON CP EAST STOKE (South side)
7/285 Cross in churchyard about 11
metres north of tower, Church of
St. Mary the Virgin
19.4.61
GV II
Churchyard cross. C13 top, base of 1911. Ham stone ashlar. Octagonal 2- step base, the lower about 2 metres across,
then octagonal plinth chamfered on top edges, with inscription off south-east and east faces; tapering octagonal shaft
with floriated ball top, on which is set the medieval cross, on one side having a carving of a seated Virgin Mary, on
the other the crucifixion, with Mary and John; the ends have trefoiled arched viches with figures, one a mitred abbot.
The cross head originally iron a roadside cross, the base of which has disappeared by the early C19, and found built
into a garden wall; the base and shaft set up to commemorate Robert Chaffey, died 1911, and also the Coronation of King
George V: possibly to the design of C.E. Ponting. (Pooley, Old Crosses of somerset, 1877).


Listing NGR: ST4840217297

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