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Object type: Cross-base
Measurements:
Tier 1: (top tier — recent)
Tier 2: H. 23 cm (9 in); W. 188 cm (73.9 in)
Tier 3: H. 29 cm (11.4 in); W. 251 cm (98.7 in)
Tier 4: H. 23 cm (9 in); W. 321 cm (126.2 in)
Stone type: Sandstone, fine-grained to very fine-grained (0.075 to 0.125 mm), well-sorted to moderately well-sorted, comprising angular to sub-angular grains of quartz with a little feldspar and mica. The upper part of the base is coloured moderately orange pink (10R 7/4) to medium reddish orange (10R 6/6), and the lower part greyish orange (10YR 7/4). Bromsgrove Sandstone Formation, Sherwood Sandstone Group, middle Triassic.
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 721
Corpus volume reference: Vol 10 p. 373
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Three-tiered cross-base on which stood a medieval cross until the late 1880s. The shaft of the medieval cross is described as bearing 'worn symbols of the Evangelists' (Pell-Walpole 1980, 16). The present shaft was erected in 1900 in memory of General Sir Edward Woodgate, son of the former rector.
Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date)
It seems possible that the small fragment of a late Anglo-Saxon cross-head that is in the church (Belbroughton 1, p. 353, Ills. 618–20) came from the shaft destroyed at the end of the nineteenth century. In which case, the three lower tiers of the base are probably also tenth/eleventh century in date. The top tier (tier 1) is contemporary with the 1900 cross-shaft.
