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Summary

A cross stands opposite Holloway Farm, Kenn. It is built into a wall over a granite trough, consisting of the damaged head portion of a cross, made of granite, one of the arms of which is badly broken, rectangular in section with chamfered angles, and all the limbs expand outwards. Immediately below the cross fragment is a tablet with an incised inscription – ‘ML 1782’, the letters M and L being conjoined.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX88NE/4

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• CROSS (Unknown date)

Full description

HEAD HEIG 356MM, ARMS WIDT 559MM, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV309863.

Cross(head heig 356mm, arms widt 559mm).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV309866.

Masson phillips, e. N. /tda/91(1959)86-87/supplementary notes on the ancient stone crosses of devon, fifth paper.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV309867.

Osa=sx88ne11.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV309868.

Des=ea/(16/1/1997)/haldon ridge survey.

Masson Phillips, E. N., Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV5785.

Holloway farm. Opposite the farmhouse, built into a well over a granite trough, is the damaged head portion of a cross of type c. Of granite, one arm badly broken. Rectangular in section with chamfered angles, and all the limbs expand outwards. Immediately below the cross fragment is a tablet with the incised inscription 'ml 1782', the m and l being conjoined (masson-phillips).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV79.

Vis=16/1/1997 (ea) head of cross and inscribed stone. Descripiton and condition as above (ea).

Watson, A., 2007-2017?, Devon Crosses, 224, (Vol 2), sketch (Un-published). SDV360833.

Holloway Farm SX893854
A cross stands opposite Holloway Farm, Kenn. It is built into a wall over a granite trough, consisting of the damaged head portion of a cross, made of granite, one of the arms of which is badly broken, rectangular in section with chamfered angles, and all the limbs expand outwards. Immediately below the cross fragment is a tablet with an incised inscription – ‘ML 1782’, the letters M and L being conjoined.
Cross height 0.35 metres, span 0.55 metres.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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