TREVIA OR SPORTSMANS CROSS AND TREVIA WALLS CROSS

Trevia or Sportsmans Cross

The Trevia or Sportsmans Cross is situated on a modern shaft at the western side of a road junction at Sportsmans south-west of Camelford,

The cross was discovered in August 1894 buried in a hedge 274m west of the former Camelford workhouse. It is thought that the burial of a number of such crosses beside their original sites took place during the Reformation (c.1540).

The location of its burial was beside a road south of Trevia. This road is part of a route across the northern part of the parish which runs, via footpaths and minor roads, directly to the parish church of Saint Julitta at Lanteglos.

After its discovery, the cross was removed for safety to the garden of Mr Nathaniel Stephens at Trevia Farm where it remained until 1970 were it was erected in its present position.

The cross and the margin were it is situated is listed and therefore protected.

The Cross has a large round or 'wheel' head and the integral neck of its original shaft. The cross measures 1.3m in overall height. The head is 0.52m in diameter and 0.2m thick. Each principal face of the head bears a relief equal-limbed cross, 0.4m high by 0.4m across the limbs. The limbs are of a constant 0.07m width and extend to a 0.06m wide peripheral bead. The surviving neck of the original shaft, immediately below the head, is 0.08m high and of rectangular section, 0.3m wide and 0.19m thick, undecorated. This neck is cemented onto a modern granite shaft 0.7m high, 0.35m wide and 0.22m thick, tapering to meet the original neck at its upper end.

Trevia Wall Cross

When Maclean viewed this remarkable cross in the 1870s it was being used as a gate post.

In 1984 it was moved to its current position

It stands just over 5’ and is poorly preserved.

The cross is remarkable due to a shield shape inscribed beneath the cross, purpose unknown.