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The cross base on Green Lane near Strickland House Farm in Standish is a medieval monument consisting of the stone base or socket stone of a wayside cross. Such crosses were typical features of the medieval landscape, serving functions both practical and devotional, marking routes, boundaries, or places of gathering. The surviving base represents the lower structural element of what would originally have been a taller cross shaft, now lost. The monument testifies to the religious and social infrastructure of medieval Lancashire, with its exact dating and original purpose remaining subjects for local historical study.
Cross base on Green Lane 300m north of Strickland House Farm, Standish is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1014118. View the official record →
The cross base on Green Lane near Strickland House Farm in Standish is a medieval monument consisting of the stone base or socket stone of a wayside cross. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1014118.
Cross base on Green Lane 300m north of Strickland House Farm, Standish 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 1014118.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Cross base at the junction of Standish Green Lane, Standish Wood Lane and Beech Walk, 200m NNW of Strickland House Farm, Standish (0.1 km), Market cross in the marketplace to the west of St Wilfrid's Church, Standish (0.6 km), Cross base on Standish Wood Lane 700m south east of Standish Hall (0.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Cross base on Green Lane 300m north of Strickland House Farm, Standish'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.
Cross base on Green Lane 300m north of Strickland House Farm, Standish stands on Pennine Middle Coal Measures Formation And South Wales Middle Coal Measures Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Moscovian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.