The Gothic-style monument replaced an earlier cross. It has two stages. The lower stage has a panel on each face in a four-centred and pointed moulded arch with a carved balustrade. The upper stage consists of an elaborately buttressed steeple turret with running poppy-head enrichment at the centre, and secondary finials. This stands on a series of pointed cusped arches on buttressed pier supports, with additional flying buttress angle supports crowned with pointed and enriched pinnacles. The whole stands on six stone steps on a large paved octagonal surround. The cross commemorates the awful story of Ruth Pierce, who wished she might drop dead if she had not paid her share of a sack of corn. Having said so three times she dropped dead and the money was found in her hand.