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Headless Cross, Cartmel
Headless Cross
locality:-   Cartmel
civil parish:-   Lower Allithwaite (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
locality type:-   locality
locality type:-   road junction (?) 
coordinates:-   SD379783
1Km square:-   SD3778
10Km square:-   SD37


photograph
BZB27.jpg  The medieval cross base.
(taken 9.8.2013)  
photograph
BZB26.jpg (taken 9.8.2013)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 17 3) 
placename:-  Headless Cross
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"CROSS AT HEADLESS CROSS TO NORTH OF JUNCTION / / / LOWER ALLITHWAITE / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76969 / SD3799378386"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Cross. Medieval base and C19 cross. Stone. Square base and plinth of 3 steps with chamfered angles. Cross has short arms."

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