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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26551343

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