More information : 'Headless Cross' which is shown by Bryant (a) and
Heaton (c) at SJ 58296794 is mentioned temp James I (b). (1)
All that remains of the cross, is the socket stone, which is
mounted on a modern block. It is situated at SJ 58256779 - See
survey.
See GP AO/61/289/3 Cross Socket Stone from the East. (2)
The socket stone, which is situated in a roadside hedge at
SJ 58276783, is 0.7m square, 0.35m high. The socket is 0.3m
square, 0.15m deep.
1:2500 survey on permatrace. (3)
The socket stone is set within the modern hedge, on a modern plinth
at SJ 58256779. The Stone is 0.7m square and 0.35m heigh, the
socket is 0.3m square and 0.15m in depth with a flat base. Tool
marks are evident on all the external faces of the Stone and on
the sides of the socket including the base. The SE corner of the
Stone is chamfered. The block has been carved from red Sandstone.
Attention should also be drawn to a stone of similar form at
SJ 58546784, SJ 56 NE 30 and Long Stone at SJ 58926768
SJ 56 NE 14.
All three stones lie either on or close to the parish boundary
and may therefore represent boundary markers. The two socketed
Stone may have contained Stone Shafts, alternatively they may
be pad Stones from a demolished building. (4)
SJ 5824 6777. The Headless Cross on Tarporley Road 230m NW of
Greenlands. Scheduled RSM No 25697. A red sandstone cross base set
on a modern concrete plinth in the line of the hedge on the W side
of the Tarporley Road. The cross base stands in its original position
beside the medieval road to Vale Royal Abbey which later became part
of a turnpike. (See also SJ 56 NE 14 and 30). This was probably one
of the seven crosses destroyed by Puritan iconoclasts in the 17th
century leading to a case in the Star Chamber. (5)
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