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Latitude: 51.8508 / 51°51'2"N
Longitude: -2.2705 / 2°16'13"W
OS Eastings: 381467
OS Northings: 216949
OS Grid: SO814169
Mapcode National: GBR 0JT.W8K
Mapcode Global: VH94B.LRK0
Plus Code: 9C3VVP2H+8R
Entry Name: Village Cross (At Corner of Rea Lane)
Listing Date: 10 January 1955
Last Amended: 15 December 1998
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1271745
English Heritage Legacy ID: 472461
ID on this website: 101271745
Location: Hempsted, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, GL2
County: Gloucestershire
District: Gloucester
Electoral Ward/Division: Westgate
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Gloucester
Traditional County: Gloucestershire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Gloucestershire
Church of England Parish: Hempsted with Gloucester, Saint Mary de Lode and Saint Mary de Crypt
Church of England Diocese: Gloucester
Tagged with: High cross Monumental cross
GLOUCESTER
SO81NW ST SWITHUN'S ROAD, Hempsted
844-1/3/455 (South side)
10/01/55 Village Cross (at corner of Rea
Lane)
(Formerly Listed as:
ST SWITHUN'S ROAD, Hempstead
Cross in Village (at corner of Rea
Lane))
GV II*
Village cross. Early C15. Dressed stone shaft of a cross found
buried in the churchyard of the Church of St Swithun, Hempsted
(qv), by Canon Samuel Lysons in 1839. The shaft, with a short
upper part added to it and the cross carved at his direction,
was erected c1850 for Lysons on a stepped base on the present
site.
EXTERIOR: square base of two steps of dressed stone blocks
laid on a C20 bottom step of rubble, and an upper, inset,
plinth block, probably medieval, with a badly weathered
chamfer; dowelled into the top of the plinth block the
slender, medieval shaft with chamfered angles broached at the
bottom; the C19 addition to the shaft surmounted by carved
Celtic cross. The medieval shaft is believed to be from a
cross erected with money donated by William Franklin in 1417
before he set out on a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostella.
Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Listing NGR: SO8146716949
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