Listed Building record MDO26818 - Village Cross, Maiden Newton

The remains of a medieval market cross of 15th-century date. Of stone (Lias), the cross consists of a square base and the lower part of a roughly square stem, standing about 5ft high. The shaft has beaded angles and on the west face are the weathered remains of figures standing on a corbelled projection.

The village or market cross once had a calvary of several tiers of steps, which was removed about the year 1780 as being an obstruction. The socket and shaft were re-erected in the same position. <2>

Description in T.21 correct except that the shaft is 1.3m high and is set in a socket stone 1.0m square which is sunk into the road at almost ground level. Graphical material omitted. <4>

Dorset County Council, 1978, Countryside Treasures in Dorset: West Dorset District, 88 (Monograph). SDO12366.

‘Stone Cross. At road junction in middle of village, the village cross stands, much worn, approximately 5ft high with small square base. At apex of stump, a metal spike protrudes with hole in the top. Marred somewhat by the awkward placing of telegraph pole and wires. 597977.’

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1 to 25 inch scale map, 1903 (Map). SDO18020.

[SY 59709771] CROSS [AT] (Rems of)

<2> Pope, A, 1906, Old Stone Crosses of Dorset, 62 (Bibliographic reference). SWX1408.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 152 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(3) MARKET CROSS at the road-junction in the middle of the village consists of a square base and the lower part of a roughly square stem, the whole standing about 5 ft. high. The shaft has beaded angles and on the W. face are the much-weathered remains of figures standing on a corbelled projection. It is probably of 15th-century date. '

<4> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 10-JAN-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<5> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 265 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<6> Kelland, S, and Kelland, L, 1994, Maiden Newton, Dorset. Report on the Conservation of the Market Cross (Unpublished document). SDO18126.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 450653 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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