Crowle Stone

The Crowle Stone is the remains of an Anglo-Saxon cross at the back of the Church of England parish church of St Oswald at Crowle, Lincolnshire.^[1][2]

The Stone

This was originally carved as a cross shaft and until 1919 it was used as a lintel over the west door.^[1][2] The preservation of the stone is almost certainly a result of the Norman masons reusing it when the church was built in 1150.^[3]

The stone measures 6 ft 11 in (2.11 m) in height 16 in (410 mm) thick and 8.5 in (220 mm) wide.

The stone is ornately carved on all three sides. At the bottom of one face there is a runic inscription which would date the cross shaft as being before 950 as the use of runes had almost completely died out by then.

References

1. Historic England. "Stone (59280)". Research records (formerly PastScape). Retrieved 7 February 2011.
2. Fowler, J.T. (1868). "Notes on the Discovery of a Shaft of a Stone Cross, with a Runic Inscription, at Crowle Church, Lincolnshire". Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London (4): 187–190.
3. Historic England. "Church (59287)". Research records (formerly PastScape). Retrieved 7 February 2011.

• Townley, Angus. "Crowle Stone". Crowle Community Forum. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
• Pevsner, Nikolaus; Harris, John (23 November 1989). Antram, Nicholas (ed.). Lincolnshire. The Buildings of England (2 ed.). Pevsner Architectural Guides. ISBN 978-0-14-071027-4.

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