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<< Our Photo Pages >> Bishop's Stone (Lustleigh) - Ancient Cross in England in Devon

Submitted by Anne T on Saturday, 01 June 2019  Page Views: 1411

Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: Bishop''s Stone (Lustleigh)
Country: England County: Devon Type: Ancient Cross
Nearest Town: Bovey Tracey  Nearest Village: Lustleigh
Map Ref: SX7860281532
Latitude: 50.620821N  Longitude: 3.717477W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
5 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
5

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Anne T visited on 11th May 2019 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 5 Bishop's Stone, Lustleigh: This stone is on a corner of a busy road junction of three minor roads– I needed to pick my time to step part way across the road to photograph the stone from the front. The metal railing shown in the Pastscape photo is now largely hidden by a beech hedge. The stone goes about around a metre or so back into the garden of the house. It’s a lot bigger than it looks at first glance. We were also lucky that the bright sunlight also helped to show up the incised shield.

Bishop's Stone (Lustleigh)
Bishop's Stone (Lustleigh) submitted by Anne T : The Bishop's Stone, seen from part way across this busy, minor road. The Pastscape photograph shows the stone set against an iron railing; a substantial hedge has since grown up around it. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Cross in Devon

This large, carved stone, is recorded as Historic England List ID 1097368 and Pastscape Monument No. 445599. Set into the garden wall of Caseley Bunglow, the photograph of it on Pastscape shows the stone with only an iron railing behind it; a hedge has now grown up around the stone, making the railing and the depth of the stone difficult to see.

Pastscape tells us that this block is "(a) with the appearance of a socket stone of a cross, but with no socket hole cut in it. The base is square; the top has chamfered corners and is octagonal. "One side bears a carved coat of arms …" One source (Phillips, 1937) says the arms of those of Bishop William Cotton (1598-1621) of Exeter, whilst Crossing, in his "Old Stone Crosses of the Dartmoor Borders" says the arms are supposed to be those of Bishop Grandisson (1330).

Prior to 1953, the cross base had been buried in the ground, with 0.9m below ground and 0.6m above. By 1953 the stone was recorded as being supported by a modern railing and wall, as "it cold not stand unaided. The block is 1.1m square at its intended ground level and the top is reduced to an octagonal shape by chamfers 0.25m deep".

F.H. Starkey, in his 1983 book "Dartmoor Crosses & Some Ancient Tracks" tells us that the stone is a large block of granite with its upper part carefully dressed, but the lower left roughly carved. When he saw the cross base just before writing his book he says "on one face a coat of arms has been incised. At preent this is indecipherable because of the lichen that has formed upon it". The lichen has now been cleared. Starkey suggests the stone formed a platform upon which the socket stone of a substantial cross once stood.

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Bishop's Stone (Lustleigh)
Bishop's Stone (Lustleigh) submitted by Anne T : The stone from the side, highlighting how the top has been chamfered. The stone goes deep into the hedge - about a metre of it is hidden by branches and leaves. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Bishop's Stone (Lustleigh)
Bishop's Stone (Lustleigh) submitted by Anne T : Close up of the Bishop's Stone. The bright sunlight brought out the coat of arms/shield incised upon it. The top of the stone has been chamfered. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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SX7881 : Southbound train at Lustleigh Station, 1957 by David M Murray-Rust
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