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Object type: Cross-base
Measurements: Unknown
Stone type: Unknown
Plate numbers in printed volume:
Corpus volume reference: Vol 10 p. 326-7
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The stone was noted by Radford (1956, 209) in the following terms, 'In the rockery in front of the hotel, east of the churchyard (formerly the rectory) is a much weathered fragment of a cross-base...'. If this stone was the base of the standing cross (see Wroxeter St Andrew 1–3, p. 314), then it may have been set in the rockery after the cross was dismantled for reuse in the rebuilding of the south wall of the church in 1763 (Moffett 1989, 5).
Now missing, but described by Radford as 'a much weathered fragment of a cross-base, probably of the 9th century' (Radford 1956, 209).
Appendix C item (lost stones for which no illustration has survived)
There is little to add to the notes above, except that the two eighteenth-century drawings which depict the cross while it was still standing, show a plain, stepped base with no carving at all (Ills. 792–3). Radford might, therefore, have seen part of the lower shaft of the cross.
