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Shaugh Prior village cross

This is one of a collection of glass plate negatives donated to the Image Bank by Totnes Museum in 2026. It shows Shaugh Prior Village Cross in an image dated to the early 1950s. It is listed as a Scheduled Monument and has been described as a ‘an impressive and well-preserved medieval wayside cross, having suffered relatively little damage’. It was ‘formed from a single piece of moderately coarse-grained granite, set into a granite socket stone. Both cross and socket stone are set into the west face of a hedge between a junction of minor roads and the entrance to the former vicarage (called Crossgates on the Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 map), about 150m east of the parish church. Most of the east face of the cross is not visible, being set against the hedge. The west face of the cross is more or less flush with the hedge. [Source: Devon and Dartmoor Historic Environment Record]