In hollow on Knights Low, Swythamley Park, Staffordshire (SJ 969648)

Removed from Wincle Grange (SJ 956654) by the squire of Swythamley in 1874 (Browne 1887b, 150; Greenslade 1996, 189).

A modern cross-head has been added to the remains of the shaft. There are three lead-filled holes on the north face of the cylinder.

Cross-shaft of type g/h with two encircling mouldings at the top of the cylindrical section. All four faces of the rectangular-sectioned shaft above carry a scalloped lower border moulding to the single undecorated panel. Immediately below the horizontal mouldings on the southern side are traces of a lightly carved delicate scroll.

Round-shaft (see Chapter V, p. 33). Like Wincle Cleulow 1 this shaft has a non-ecclesiastical provenance. With its non-decorated panels, double encircling moulding and swags it can be matched by the other Wincle cross (Ills. 362–5). It does, however, seem to have carried some form of lightly-carved scroll decoration around the cylinder immediately below the mouldings. The form of this is no longer clear but ornament in a similar position seems to occur at Heaton and at Ilam in Staffordshire (Ills. 739–40; Brown, G. 1937, pl. C) — and may not have been noticed on seemingly 'plain' shafts elsewhere.

Tenth or eleventh century

Ormerod 1875–82, III, 540, 769; Renaud 1876, 73, fig. facing 71; Earwaker 1877–80, II, 433; Browne 1887b, 150; Crofton 1903, 47; (—) 1912a, 236–7; (—) 1914, 265, fig. facing 264; Phelps 1919, 99; (—) 1921b, 160; Pape 1945–6, 37–8, pl. V; Sylvester and Nulty 1958, 14; Heath 1970, 6; Plunkett 1984, II, 286; Thacker 1987, 291; Sidebottom 1994, 119, 149, 152, 270, and pls.; Greenslade 1996, 189; Sharpe 2002, 101, fig. on 101

[1] Winwick was incorporated into Cheshire in the 1974 Local Government reorganisation (Table 1, p. 2).