York Historic Environment Record

Boundary cross. C15. Limestone. Octagonal on plan. Truncated broach stopped octagonal shaft approximately 0.6 metre high, on deep base raised on 3 steps. (An Inventory of the Historical Monuments of the City of York: RCHME: Outside the City Walls East of the Ouse: HMSO: 1975-: 54).
Listing NGR: SE6086950130
Derived from English Heritage LB download dated: 22/08/2005

Historic England (pers comm. Insp. Mon. 2024):
The cross is in good condition and is to be considered in its original location. Believed to be erected c.1485 replacing earlier timber cross. Cross likley demarcates ownership boundary between the city and St Marys Abbey.

The cross was the meeting point for city officials to meet King Henry VIII in 1541 to visibly submit to his authority following the suppression of the Pilgrimage of Grace.



NMR Information:

[SE 6086 5013] Pedestal of Stone Cross [T.I.]

Fulford Cross, of wood in 1374/5, had been replaced by a stone cross by 1501, and became a boundary stone in 1593.

A well preserved and typically Md. stone cross comprising shaft, 0.9 m. in height, and socket stone mounted on a base of three tiers. See G.P. AO/63/108/2.

NMR Sources
1 Ordnance Survey Map OS 25" 1938
2 VIRTUAL CATALOGUE ENTRY TO SUPPORT NAR MIGRATION 302 M. York, 1955, (A. Raine)
3 Field Investigators Comments F1 RL 30-MAY-63
4 Scheduled Monument Notification 17-Apr-97

613515 Architectural Survey Investigation by RCHME/EH Architectural Survey
BF060312 FULFORD CROSS File of material relating to a site or building. This material has not yet been fully catalogued.

Compiler D SMITH 1962-12-27 1962-12-27 Ordnance Survey Archaeology Officer 08-FEB-1960-31-MAY-1961 and 01-NOV-1966-26-JUL-1974

Compiler R L LEWIS 1963-05-30 1963-05-30 Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigator and Recorder 1960-1966

RCHME, 1975, RCHME Volume 4, Outside the City Walls East of the Ouse (Monograph). SYO2424.

NMR, 2019, NMR data (Digital archive). SYO2214.