Description

SK 7699-7799 HAXEY CHURCH STREET
(south side)

22/104 Cross base approximately
25 metres east of Church
of St Nicholas

GV II

Cross base. Medieval, reset in C19-C20. Limestone ashlar; brick patching
to base. Drum pedestal with square-section foot and broach stops to
octagonal upper section. Stump of former cross shaft in leaded socket
broken flush with top. Limestone and brick base with single worn steps to
south, east and west sides. The cross base is also known locally as the
"Lady Mowbray" or "Hood Stone", from its association with the traditional
"Haxey Hood" game, held on January 6th, where it is used as the site of the
Fool's Speech and ceremony of "Smoking the Fool". E H Rudkin, Lincolnshire
Folklore, 1973, pp xiv-xvi, pp 90-97.

Listing NGR: SK7652099845

External Links

• Historic England Listing

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)