Crosses and stones

Hob Cross
As in the case of Ruther Cross the word cross is probably a misomer. The initials RC are those of Robert Chaloner, Lord of the Manor in 1798. Hob is the name of the Cleveland Sprite who is connected with local legends.
It is situated at Tidkinhow Head (NZ61 65/13) Percy Cross, site of.
Boundary stone erected by Robert Chaloner on the site of Percy Cross.
In 1856 Captain Thomas Chaloner made a perambulation of his manor and his initials and the date were cut under the earlier initial RC.

Captain Chaloner succeeded to the estate in 1855, so he took his manorial duties seriously, giving due notice of the Perambulation, being accompanied on the day by his Steward, his Flag Bearer and other followers.

This stone was destroyed during the Second World War and formerly stood on Percy Rigg at the point where the Lounsdale Road branches off the Hutton-Kildale Road (NZ 61 61/12)

Stone with a leprous past (Evening Gazette - no date)

Mrs Vera Bulman looked at this piece of old stone standing on the side of Hutton Road, Guisborough, and said: “I doubt whether one person in fifty knows what it is. And I don’t think many people living on this Hutton Estate realise that the site was once an old leper colony.”
She pointed to the three-foot high Leper Stone which warned people visiting the unfortunates in the colony not to go any further. “They would then leave food and messages near it,” “
Mrs Bulman, mother of five boys and a daughter, and a former resident of Newton-under-Roseberry, feels that the stone is too vulnerable and might become the victim of vandalism. “It must be donkey’s years old,” she said. “And certainly it dates well back into the 13th century.”
The stone at present has only the small wooden fence erected by Guisborough UDC. Already it shows signs of damage. “And it will not last two minutes when the new school opens a bit further up the road,” said Mrs Bulman.

Comment.
Only a legend? More likely to mark junction of road leading to Ruthergate (c. 13c).

Ruther Cross
from Ramblers’ Riding by A. Falconer.

“Ruther Cross helped the medieval traveller to take the correct turning up to the Percy Cross Road which linked the Bruce estates of Guisborough with Westerdale. Second cross, Percy Cross, marked where the road to Percy Manor house at Kildale left the Rigg road.”

See also Alfred Armstrong’s article on Ruthergate – Cleveland & Teesside Local History Society Bulletin.

Standing on Hutton Lane to the NW of the Council Housing Estate opposite to the Newstead County Infants School. (now Highcliff Primary 2003). This has been erroneously described as the boundary of a leper colony where food was deposited. To the S of the stone there is a well-defined “gate” or “way” leading towards the escarpment and the moors beyond. The name Rogergate appears in the Guisborough Priory Charters and Rechergate occurs in an agreement between the Prior and Richard of Hutton, c 1237, which defined the right of pasturage. So this could be a boundary stone to the “cattle way”. Further signs of antiquity occur in the discovery of Roman coins in “Rothergate”. See “The Romans in Cleveland” by F Elgee 1923.

Skelderskew

Extract from Deed of August 1884 refers to a certain stone marked with the letters NT and S and placed 50 yards on the west side of a gate on the road leading from the said moor unto the said farm to a certain stone marked with the letters SK and G standing on a certain How or Hillock called Hob on the Hill on the Hill towards the west. (NR Record Office).

Above stone found in the Rectory grounds, 1966, and placed on the verge near the Foundry, on the opposite side of the road.
Handstone, top of the bank west out of Commondale, at the junction with the North Ings track.

Stump Cross
Evidence for existence of a Cross at Stump Cross
ZDU – North Riding County Archive Office.

item folio             Langbaurgh Wapentake Court Rolls.

        3   8 May  1621  Sandwathe

           29 May  1621  At the Western exit from Gisburne, John Morley Steward

           19 June 1621  At Deare Close noke

            4 June 1622  John Morley Steward. Before suitors.. at the west end of

                         Gisburne at the Cross there.

 131  36   17 Mar  1628/1629 (?) at Helm Cross in the lordship of Gisburne.

      40    7 Apr  1629  at Wyndle Hill in the lordship of Gisburne

      44   26 Apr  1629  Sandwath Lordp of GisburneMay

      47   19 May  1629  At the Cross ...West end of Gisburne

      51    9 June 1629  Deare Close newke ... lordship of Gisburne

 132  33    8 June 1630  Cross W end Gisburn

      36   29 June 1630  Deare Close newke .. etc.

 133  32   10 May  1631  Sandwath

      36   21 May  1631  Cross W end Gisn.

 134  27    7 May  1632  Sandwath

      28   29 May  1632  Cross W end of Gisborne

 135  28   26 May  1635  Sandwath

      28   16 June 1635  Cross W end of Guis.

      29    7 July 1635  Dere Close Nooke

 136  31    3 May  1636  Sandwath

      33   24 May  1636  Cross W end of Gisn

      35   14 June 1636  Dere Close Nooke

 137  11           1637

 138  32   28 Apr  1646  Sandwath

 141  13   23 May  1648  Sandwath

      16   13 June 1648  W end of Guisborough

            4 July 1648  Deereclose

 142  81   22 May  1649  W end of Guis.

 144  80   16 May  1652  W end of Guis.

 145  76   14 June 1653  W end of Guis.

 146  41   13 June 1654  Court Baron adjourned to this date. W end of Guis.

 147  23   23 May  1654  ‘West Gisbrough’

 148  31   22 May  1655  W end of Gis.

 149  21       do        W end of Gis. (separate paper)

 150  67   10 June 1656  W end of Gis.

 151  28       do (draft roll)W end of Gis.

 152  23   20 May  1657  W end of Guis.

 153  25   24 May  1659  W end of Guis.

 154  23    5 June 1660  W end of Guis.

 155  COURT PAPERS 1707

            1 July       Langbaurgh at Deare Close Style. Ct Baron of Henry Marwood,

                         Bart. Chief Bailiff of the Liberty of Langh, there held by

                         adjournment at the mansion house of Ralph Burton in

                         Guisborough.

 155        8 June 1708  At Stump Crosse adjourned to Wilton.

           26 June 1708  Deareclose Style. Ct Baron at the mansion house of

                         Ralph Burton in Guisborough.

           12 June 1711  Stump Crosse. Ct Baron RB’s house at Guisborough.

           14 June 1715  Stump Crosse

            9 June 1719  Stump Crosse Ct Baron at John Walker’s house in Redcar

                   1719  Dear Close Style. Ct Baron

           19 May  1747  Sandwath Ct Baron Thos Sanders’ house in Gisborough

            9 June 1747  Stump Cross. T Sanders’ house as above

           12 June 1770  Court Baron

           11 June 1771  Stump Cross Ct Baron of Wm Marwood

           11 June 1776  Stump Cross Ct Baron of Wm Marwood

           10 June 1777  Stump Cross Ct Baron of Wm Marwood

ZJB. (3.1.64)
Guis. Grammar School & Hospital, 3 May 1710:
Ralph Burton,yeoman, witness to a lease to Mr Garth of Bolam.