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Summary

Remains of cross shaft close to the south gate of the churchyard, laid as coping stones on the wall. Upper portion of an octagonal cross shaft, with the head and one of the arms.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX77SW18
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 445294
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX77SW/4/1

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• CROSS (Medieval - 1066 AD (Between) to 1539 AD (Between))

Full description

Ordnance Survey, 1880-1899, First Edition Ordnance 25 inch map (Cartographic). SDV336179.

'Stone Cross (Remains of)' marked on 1880s-1890s 25 inch Ordnance Survey map.

Crossing, W., 1892, Old Stone Crosses of the Dartmoor Border, 144 (Monograph). SDV279564.

Ordnance Survey, 1904 - 1906, Second Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch Map (Cartographic). SDV325644.

Cross [G.T.] (Rems. of) [SX 7205 7311].

Masson Phillips, E. N., 1937, The Ancient Stone Crosses of Devon: Part I, 323-4 (Article in Serial). SDV240502.

Remains of cross shaft (not in situ) at SX72057311. Type B at Buckland-in-the-Moor. Close to the south gate of the churchyard, laid as coping stones on the wall, the upper portion of an octagonal cross shaft, with the head and one of the arms.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1960, SX77SW18 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV301808.

(18/05/1960) Buckland-in-the-Moor. Close to the southern gate of the churchyard, laid as coping stones on the wall; the upper portion of an octagonal cross shaft, with the head and one of the arms (citing Masson Phillips, 1937, pg. 323-4).
Crossing suggests that the pedestal outside (Devon 108 SW 13) may be part of this cross (1892, pg. 144).
For Ground photograph see AO/60/14/5.

Ordnance Survey, 1963-1996, 1963-1996 National Grid OS Metric (Cartographic). SDV350058.

(SX 7205 7311) Cross (NR) (rems of) (NAT).

Belsey, P. M., 1983 - 1987, Buckland In The Moor Parish Checklist (Un-published). SDV345904.

(02/02/1983) Upper portion of octagonal shaft with head and one arm laid as coping stone on churchyard wall close to south gate.

Brown, M., 1996, A guide to the Parish of Buckland-in-the-Moor, 5 (Monograph). SDV361770.

Broken cross head cemented into the top of the wall to the left of the gate. Probably once stood on the pedestal where now the oak tree planted in 1935 to mark the Jubilee of King George V.

Watson, A., 2007-2017?, Devon Crosses, 73 (Un-published). SDV360833.

Buckland-in-the-Moor Churchyard cross at SX725731. The remains of the churchyard cross is at present acting as the coping stone on top of the churchyard wall beside the south gate, it consists of the upper part of the shaft and arm of a cross of octagonal section.
Cross length 0.45 metres, span 0.58 metres.

Ordnance Survey, 2016, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV359352.

'Cross (remains of)' depicted on the modern mapping.

Sources / Further Reading

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Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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