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Wayside cross at Aston Magna is a medieval stone cross located in Gloucestershire. The monument dates to the medieval period and survives as a wayside cross, a common form of roadside religious marker found throughout England during the Middle Ages. Such crosses typically served as focal points for devotion, meeting places, or directional markers along routes of travel and pilgrimage. The structure represents the vernacular religious landscape of medieval England and contributes to understanding the distribution of Christian monuments in rural parishes.
Wayside cross at Aston Magna is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1014397. View the official record →
Wayside cross at Aston Magna is a medieval stone cross located in Gloucestershire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1014397.
Wayside cross at Aston Magna 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 1014397.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Romano-British villa 350m south east of Abbotswood (9.5 km), Poleswood East long barrow 850m NNW of St Mary`s Church (9.6 km), Prehistoric enclosure known as Stow Camp (9.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Wayside cross at Aston Magna'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.
Wayside cross at Aston Magna stands on Lias Group, bedrock that formed in the Aalenian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, limestone and sandstone.