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St Bartholomew's churchyard cross is a Anglo-Scandinavian stone monument located in Leicestershire. The cross dates to the ninth or tenth century and represents the cultural synthesis characteristic of the Danelaw period, when Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon influences merged in the English Midlands. The monument survives as a shaft fragment, demonstrating the artistic traditions of stone carving that persisted through the Viking Age in this region. Such crosses served both religious and potentially commemorative functions within early medieval communities.
Anglo-Scandinavian cross, St Bartholomew's churchyard is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1014512. View the official record →
St Bartholomew's churchyard cross is a Anglo-Scandinavian stone monument located in Leicestershire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1014512.
Anglo-Scandinavian cross, St Bartholomew's churchyard is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1014512.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Medieval monastic grange with building platforms and dovecote at Saltby (2.2 km), King Lud's Intrenchments and adjacent barrow (3.2 km), Bescaby shrunken medieval village (3.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Anglo-Scandinavian cross, St Bartholomew's churchyard's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Anglo-Scandinavian cross, St Bartholomew's churchyard stands on Inferior Oolite Group, bedrock that formed in the Bathonian. The rock here is limestone, sandstone, siltstone and mudstone.