Mediaeval Monuments - Stone Crosses in the English Landscape

During the mediaeval period, from 1157 to the late 15th century, the lordship rights over the lands around Glossop belonged to Basingwerk Abbey in North Wales. Monks from Basingwerk farmed around Charlesworth, and several times Monks found themselves in court in Glossop for poaching. The monks set up crosses at a number of locations around Glossop to mark the boundaries of the area they held. One of these crosses stood at Charlesworth, on, appropriately enough, Monks Road. A little further up Monks Road, where it enters Charlesworth village, is Charlesworth Congregational Church, which stands on the site where, around the turn of the fourteenth century, monks set up a small chapel on the hillside.

The remains of the base of Charlesworth Cross,
now known, from its shape, as the Abbot's Chair
Monks Road, Charlesworth, January 2001

Click below to visit the pages for the other mediaeval crosses of the Glossop area.

There are six mediaeval boundary crosses around Glossop.
Starting at the top right, and proceeding clockwise, these are:
Lady Cross, Old Glossop Cross, Whitfield Cross, Charlesworth Cross (also known as the Abbot's Chair),
Robin Hood's Picking Rods and Hadfield Cross

* The Ordnance Survey National Grid Reference (and corresponding Latitude/Longitude) given at the top of the page usually refer to the location of the closest or most prominent entrance to the site where the monument is to be found - e.g. a gate into a churchyard. For monuments located in open country, or at a significant distance from the site entrance as just defined, the co-ordinates usually refer to the exact location of the monument.
Please allow for a small error in the co-ordinates of up to a couple of dozen metres.

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