Walkhampton Church House cross

Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1009194) describes the tall but incomplete shaft of a medieval wayside cross of moderately fine-grained granite, set in a granite socket stone on a grass verge on the east side of Walkhampton Church House. The shaft and socket were brought together in a restoration in 1984, when the socket was slightly enlarged to take the shaft, and a head was added in the 1990s. The shaft stands 1.63 metres above the socket and has a nearly square base, 0.37 by 0.34 metres, becoming chamfered between 0.29 and 0.38 metres up, with a chamfer 0.1 to 0.11 metres wide running to the broken top. In the middle of the top is a drilled triangular hole 25 millimetres across and 45 millimetres deep, and on the west corner half the chamfer is cut away to make vertical fluting. Four holes on the south-east face are partly plugged with lead or iron. It lies in the parish of Walkhampton, about 2 km west of Lowery Tor and 1.5 km north of Dousland.

The socket stone is of a different granite from the shaft and has an uneven top, so it was probably never meant to be seen. It is about 1 metre square and shows up to 0.25 metres above the turf. The monument is not where it began, since the shaft and the socket stone have each been recorded in other places nearby.

Sources: Historic England list entry 1009194, which cites Starkey, Dartmoor Crosses and Some Ancient Tracks (1989), page 148, and Masson Phillips, 'Supplementary Notes on the Ancient Stone Crosses of Devon' (Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association, vol 111, 1979), page 143.

• Status: Scheduled monument (Historic England list entry 1009194)
• Grid reference: SX 5371 7019 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)