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Asfordby Cross
Trip No.121 Entry No.2 Date Added: 19th Mar 2019
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Leicestershire and Rutland)
Visited: Yes on 17th Mar 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Asfordby Cross submitted by Anne T on 19th Mar 2019. Village Cross in Leicestershire and Rutland England. Standing at the south side of Main Street, where it joins Church Lane, looking north across the cross. The cross shaft and cross are very obviously modern, although the socket stone and steps look much older (although Pastscape says these are not original).
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Log Text: Asfordby Village Cross: Not really much to see, as the cross shaft is obviously modern, on an older base, but as this was just round the corner from All Saints, we whizzed round to take a very quick look.
Bottesford Cross
Trip No.121 Entry No.6 Date Added: 19th Mar 2019
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Leicestershire and Rutland)
Visited: Yes on 17th Mar 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Bottesford Cross submitted by Anne T on 19th Mar 2019. Market Cross in Leicestershire and Rutland England. Looking east across the market cross and the remains of the stocks and whipping post, down Grantham Road.
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Log Text: Market Cross, Bottesford: We saw this purely by chance as we turned down the road heading north towards the A1 and home, and stopped to take photographs. The village stocks and whipping post were right next to the cross, which was placed on top of five steps, the top two of which are modern repairs.
St Bartholomew (Sproxton)
Trip No.121 Entry No.3 Date Added: 19th Mar 2019
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Leicestershire and Rutland)
Visited: Yes on 17th Mar 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
St Bartholomew (Sproxton) submitted by Anne T on 19th Mar 2019. Anglo Scandinavian Cross in Leicestershire and Rutland England. This is some of the detailed work on the northern, narrow, face of the cross.
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Log Text: Sproxton Cross, St Bartholomew's Church: This church was a little way out of the village and we parked in a small metalled area next to a 'gallop' at SK 85667 24972 and braved the wind to walk back down the road to the gate into the churchyard.
The vicar had previously told us the cross had been moved inside the church, but looking after 11 churches in total, he must have been confused, because as soon as we rounded the west end of the church to reach the entrance through the south porch, the cross came into sight. What is inside the church is an 11th century cross slab/grave marker.
This is a very quiet spot, apart from the occasional car that came hurtling past.
The inside of the church appears relatively modern, but has some really interesting corbels. We also found a portion of carving, either part of a fluted column, or cemented to it, next to the north western side of the door into the tower.
We did have a good scout around for the shaped stone in the south western wall mentioned by The Journal of Antiquities, but were unable to find it.
In the field to the south of the church is a well, but could find no mention of this on Pastscape or Historic England.
All Saints (Asfordby)
Trip No.121 Entry No.1 Date Added: 24th Mar 2019
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Leicestershire and Rutland)
Visited: Yes on 17th Mar 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
All Saints (Asfordby) submitted by Anne T on 19th Mar 2019. Anglo Saxon cross shaft fragments in Leicestershire and Rutland England. This is the figure 'giving a blessing' on the front of the central of the three fragments. Whilst in the church we debated whether the figure was holding a cross or an axe in its left hand. I favoured an axe, but given where it was, the preferred thinking is that it is a cross!
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Log Text: All Saints, Asfordby: The church is usually open on Saturdays between 2pm and 4pm, but we were fortunate because there was a service here today, from 10.30am until 11.30am, so we arrived as close as we could to the finish time of the service (which, because we got lost, was 12 noon). The congregation was having coffee and biscuits, but made us hugely welcome – even our son and DIL’s Labrador was allowed into the church and made a fuss of. The vicar had very kindly made arrangements for us to meet the Secretary and Historian of the church, who warmly welcomed us, introduced us to the Curate, and showed us round the church.
All Saints is very obviously a vibrant, active church, and the building is well used for community activities, which is lovely to see.
Miriam, the historian, very kindly showed us the three Anglo Saxon stones cemented into the far south western corner of the nave, with members of the congregation very kindly re-arranging tables and chairs for us to have easier access.
I came prepared with a list of features I really wanted to see, including the rare Tudor painted bench end (next to a pillar just to the east at the north western corner of the nave), the Green Man (on a boss high up in the middle of the nave) and Norman aumbry (in the northern wall at the north eastern corner of the nave) with its original Norman chevrons. Miriam also pointed out a ‘ladder’ (stairway to heaven) on the pillar at the north eastern side of the nave, and pilgrim crosses and what looked like a scratch sundial on the external western side of the door frame into the church.
I really could have spent a lot longer in the church, as it had a lovely, calm, reflective atmosphere and would love to attend a service here.
St Michael and All Angels (Harston)
Trip No.121 Entry No.4 Date Added: 19th Mar 2019
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Leicestershire and Rutland)
Visited: Yes on 17th Mar 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
St Michael and All Angels (Harston) submitted by Anne T on 19th Mar 2019. Ancient cross in Leicestershire and Rutland England. This is the fragment of Anglo Saxon stone embedded in the exterior east wall of the church, immediately underneath the east window. Prof. Rosemary Cramp in her paper "New Directions in the study of Anglo Saxon Sculpture" (page 4) describes this as part of a grave cover.
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Log Text: Anglo Saxon cross fragments, St Michael and All Angels, Harston: Before visiting, I wasn’t able to find out much about the church or the AS stone fragments. I was hoping for a church guide book, but there was nothing. There were newspaper articles and photos of the bell tower and the bells displayed in the bell tower, but nothing was made of the fragments – one in the external east wall, and another in the south porch. Pastscape mentions that the stone in the east wall is possibly part of a cross shaft
The church looks very appealing from the outside, being made of warm, yellow stone. Inside it is very Victorian. The only thing of any age appeared to be the stem of the font.
Nice to have been able to drop by and photograph the fragments.
St Peter's Church (Redmile)
Trip No.121 Entry No.5 Date Added: 19th Mar 2019
Site Type: Early Christian Sculptured Stone
Country: England (Leicestershire and Rutland)
Visited: Yes on 17th Mar 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
St Peter's Church (Redmile) submitted by Anne T on 19th Mar 2019. Anglo Saxon Carved Stone in Leicestershire and Rutland England. The carved stone, now reused as a windowsill.
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Log Text: Carved Anglo Saxon Stone, St Peter's Church, Redmile: Our last planned visit before heading off home, and this church didn't disappoint, despite being greeted by "Warning. Falling Masonry" signs on entering the church through the south door! The north western part of the nave was cordoned off, with similar notices.
No two walls of this church were plumb, and the cracking in the north wall was quite spectacular. However, the atmosphere of the church was warm and friendly, and we felt relatively safe knowing there had been a service there only that morning.
We found the stone, reused as a windowsill, easily enough. Placed under a window by the pulpit, it proved a little tricky to photograph, and I could have done with a ladder to photograph all of it from above.
I also spotted what could have been what looked like another fragment in the south wall of the church, and Andrew found 'witches marks' on the eastern external jamb of the south porch.