The Cross. The name only is retained, for the structure is gone … According to tradition … a stone erection, with steps surmounted by a cross. It is said that less than a hundred years ago vestiges of an old stone cross were here … the last vestiges having been removed about 1860. (1)
The remains of a cross, probably the pedestal, about 1ft high (at SK 52823676). No information was obtainable as to the original site. (2)
Remains of village cross re-erected here 1937. (3)
Cross now moved to above grid ref. (4)
Originally on a spot near the War Memorial. It was taken down in the 1850's and was discovered embedded in the walls of Manor Lodge by ... Mr Arthur Cossons, and was re-erected in the grounds of the Manor School, where Mr Cossons was the headmaster. (5)
The description of (4) fits the cross remains in (2). Probably a wayside cross. (6)
Village cross. C14. Re-sited and restored c.1860. (8)
See M8926 for cross at Chilwell.

Listed buildings slides, (Photograph). SNT2648.

<1> Mellors R, 1916, Beeston Then and Now, p 8 (Monograph). SNT1453.

<2> Unknown, 25/2/1955, LS Reviser (Personal comment). SNT892.

<3> Unknown, OS Rec 6in (Personal comment). SNT987.

<4> EJR, 16/5/1963, Pers Comm (Personal comment). SNT666.

<5> Cooper ME, In Search of Historic Beeston (Monograph). SNT1454.

<6> Colquhoun FD, 1975, Pers Comm (Personal comment). SNT583.

<7> Beeston & District Civic Soc, Old Village Trail (Monograph). SNT1455.

<8> DOE, Listed Building Description (Published document). SNT228.