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. Dressed stone. Square base. Tapered square shaft approx. 3ft. high (8) (9)

Stapleton notes, in 1902, a possible cross shaft with square base utilised in a bridge over a stream in Ley's Lane, Chilwell (Ley's Lane not located on OS 25" 1901). (10)

See M8926 for cross at Chilwell.

Listed buildings slides, (Photograph). SNT2648.

OS, 1956, 2500 in 1956 (Map). SNT6246.

Historic England, 2021, National Record of Historic Environment (Digital archive). SNT5271.

<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.

<9> DOE, 1987, Dist of Broxtowe (Published document). SNT6117.

<10> Stapleton A, 1912, Catalogue of Notts Crosses (Published document). SNT1324.