Exploring Kent's Past

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Monument details

Summary

Medieval wayside cross (site of) Saxon cross incorporated in the wall of the new chapel to the southwest of Brasted Place. It was previously located within the grounds of Brasted Place, 300 yards from its original site which was by the side of the Brasted-Ide Hill road. Local tradition states it was visited by pilgrims travelling on the nearby Pilgrims Way. The cross is of sandstone, is uninscribed and undecorated.

Monument Types

• CROSS (CROSS, Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon to Medieval - 660 AD to 1066 AD)

Full description

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[Area TQ 4779 5491] An ancient stone cross in the grounds of Brasted Place, which originally stood close by its present spot, by the old course of the Brasted - Ide Hill road, now 200 yards to the east. The cross stands upon a little bridge built over the hollow way which formed the old road, and beneath it is an inscription recording the fact that it formerly stood by the wayside. According to local tradition, the pilgrims used to turn aside from the Pilgrims Way, at Brasted, to visit this wayside shrine. [The road was diverted about 140 years ago when the present Brasted Place was built.] (1) The cross fell from the bridge (at TQ 47815494) a few years ago. The fragments, preserved at Brasted Place, (TQ 45 SE 12) are of a simple, uninscribed and undecorated sandstone cross showing considerable weathering. (2) 1. 5280 BRASTED BRASTED High Street (South Side) Brasted Place and Saxon Cross TQ 4755 2/47 TQ 45 SE 45/47 10.9.54. I New chapel building extends behind. In the wall is mounted a Saxon cross, formerly set upon the rustic bridge to south-east. (Included in Sundridge parish). 5280 SUNDRIDGE SUNDRIDGE New Road (East Side) (off) Rustic Stone Bridge in woods to South-East of Brasted Place. TQ 45 SE 45/34 10.9.54. II Saxon cross formerly mounted on bridge is now incorporated in wall of new Chapel to South-West of Brasted Place, Brasted CP (qv). (3)

<1> MS Notes (undated)(Gordon Ward) Poss K.A.S. Library, Maidstone. (OS Card Reference). SKE47459.

<2> F1 ASP 14-AUG-64 (OS Card Reference). SKE42097.

<3> DOE(HHR) Dist of Sevenoaks Kent RD of Sevenoaks 1975 10-11 332 (OS Card Reference). SKE41001.

<4> Field report for monument TQ 45 SE 4 - August, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE2681.

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