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Headless Cross
Headless Cross
Headless Cross
Headless Cross
Headless Cross
Headless Cross
Headless Cross
Headless Cross

Image credit: Alan Greenwell / Art UK

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Part of the shaft of an Anglo Saxon decorated cross, stood on a modern base. It is decorated on all four faces with carvings, which include the figure of a man from the waist down; a trellis filled with geometrical ornamentation of horizontal and vertical straight lines repeated to form a band known as a fret; a modified version of T-fret; and a combination of vinescroll and frets. On the top of the shaft there is a post-medieval flat sandstone slab which shows signs of a sundial, which has latterly been used as a direction stone. The shaft was reputedly found in 1852 during the construction of the Lower Rivington Reservoir and re-erected on or near what is believed to be its original site. It was then split up, between 1853 and 1855, and the lower parts moved to Ridgmont House, Horwich, a home of W.

Title

Headless Cross

Date

late 10th C–mid–11th C

Medium

sandstone

Measurements

H 105 x W 64 x D 27 cm

Accession number

PR6_AG_S073

Acquisition method

transferred by 2nd Viscount Leverhulme

Work type

Cross

Owner

Chorley Borough Council

Custodian

Chorley Borough Council

Work status

extant

Listing status

Grade II (England and Wales)

Listing date

21/05/59

Access

at all times

Inscription description

inscribed on the top stone, on the north (and front) side: TO PRESTON; on the east side: TO BLAGBUR (N missing); on the south side: TO BOULTON; on the west side: TO WIGGAN

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Located at

Rivington Lane, Anderton

PR6 9HH

Just north of the A673 Bolton-Chorley road, beside a small green at the three-way junction of Grimeford Lane, Rivington Lane and Roscoe Lower Brow.