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© Mr Michael Cook
IoE Number:
264340
Location:
CHURCHYARD CROSS IN CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST CATHERINE, CHURCH STREET (north side)
DRAYTON, SOUTH SOMERSET, SOMERSET
Photographer:
Mr Michael Cook
Date Photographed:
23 April 2003
Date listed:
17 April 1959
Date of last amendment:
17 April 1959
Grade
II*
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ST4024 DRAYTON CP CHURCH STREET (North side)
7/20 Churchyard Cross in churchyard of
Church of St. Catherine
17.4.59
GV II*
Churchyard cross. C15, recut and altered C17. Dressed stone. Base of 3 octagonal steps with dripmoulds, massive square
socket with broaches and an octagonal upper bed; tapering shaft, square on plan, capped by a ball finial, cut down from
its original height, south face enriched with a sculpture of St Michael with sword and shield in the act of vanquishing
the Dragon. The figure stands under a canopied niche upon a bracket, which is supported by 2 small carved figures of
priests in canonicals. (Pooley C, Old Crosses of Somerset, 1877; Pevsner N, Buildings of England, South and West
Somerset, 1958).