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Title: Reaps Cross, Heptonstall Moor - CBC01898
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Title
Reaps Cross, Heptonstall Moor - CBC01898
Description
Grade II
Wayside cross, possibly medieval. Large rough dressed boulder has sunken square hole into which is inserted monolithic cross shaft roughly dressed. Rectangular on plan tapering slightly towards the top. Stop chamfered corners. The larger part of the shaft lies prone at its foot. This has chamfers for arms of cross which are broken off. Large metal pin sunk in shaft from earlier repair. In a magnificent isolated position on wild moorland overlooking Gorple Lower Reservoir. Probably used as a waymarker on the road to Widdop hence to Colne from Blackshaw Head.
NGR: SD 94358 30268
Historic England Listing No: 1226173
CMBC Ref: H 79
The cross has since been reassembled.
Wayside cross, possibly medieval. Large rough dressed boulder has sunken square hole into which is inserted monolithic cross shaft roughly dressed. Rectangular on plan tapering slightly towards the top. Stop chamfered corners. The larger part of the shaft lies prone at its foot. This has chamfers for arms of cross which are broken off. Large metal pin sunk in shaft from earlier repair. In a magnificent isolated position on wild moorland overlooking Gorple Lower Reservoir. Probably used as a waymarker on the road to Widdop hence to Colne from Blackshaw Head.
NGR: SD 94358 30268
Historic England Listing No: 1226173
CMBC Ref: H 79
The cross has since been reassembled.
Date
2021-08-18T09:04:17
Rights
PHDA - Calderdale M.B.C.
Relation
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Identifier
CBC01898.jpg
Collection
Citation
“Reaps Cross, Heptonstall Moor - CBC01898,” Pennine Horizons Digital Archive, accessed April 19, 2024, https://penninehorizons.org/items/show/35445.
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