More information : (SX 069576) Sandyway Cross was unearthed during road-widening operations in 1936. It was re-erected on its present
site, "in the hedge a short distance beyond Sandyway Bridge,
where a narrow and somewhat steep byway branches off northwards
to Higher Gready" in 1941. (See photograph.) (1)
Sandyway Cross is no longer at the place deduced from Ellis'
description. It is now set deeply into the hedge on south side
of the road junction at SX 07915796. The cross is set in an
unornamental block, almost entirely overgrown. The cross is
1.1m high, the wheel head 0.4m across and 0.15m thick. The face
shown in Ellis' photograph is now flush against the hedge; the
exposed face is similar but has the circular cup depression at
the junction of the limbs, fairly common in medieval wheel head
crosses. (2)
Listed. (3) |