Devon Marker Stones
           
District: Exeter                      

 
Parish: St Thomas        
                                       
                                       
 Page Contents:  
  3 Boundary Stones
  2 Crosses
  3 Marker Stones
   
   
   
                           
                           
       
        Stone Type: Granite Cross
        Grid Reference: SX/9097/9171
        Location: Against the front wall of the old Cowick Street First School.
        Notes: This cross is unusual in that it has four arms of equal length, with each pair being joined at the back of the cross.
               
                                 
                                 
                           
                           
             
 Stone Type: Boundary Stone              
 Grid Reference: SX/9025/9139              
 Location: Set back into a cavity in the retaining wall, on the South side of the road near the top of Dunsford Hill.              
 Inscription: St Thomas P / Alphington P              
               
                                 
                           
                           
                           
              Stone Type: Boundary Stone
              Grid Reference: SX/9018/9139
              Location: On the grass verge at the top of Dunsford Hill, opposite the junction to Little John's Cross.
              Inscription: (The inscription is no longer legible)
             
                                 
                           
                           
       
 Stone Type: Granite Cross              
 Grid Reference: SX/9018/9135              
 Location: In the side garden of the house at the junction of Dunsford Hill with Little John's Cross.              
 Notes: This cross has had a substantial repair about 2/3rds of the way up the shaft.              
               
                                 
                           
                           
                           
              Stone Type: Boundary Stone
              Grid Reference: SX/9088/9080
              Location: On the corner of Hambeer Lane, about 200 metres to the South West of its junction with Cowick Lane.
              Inscription: A P / S T P  - (Alphington Parish / St Thomas Parish)
             
                                 
                                 
                                 
                         
                         
 Stone Type: Marker Stone
 Grid Reference: SX/9159/9189
 Location: Outside the Riverside (Plaza) Leisure Centre in Alphington Road.
 Notes: To Commemorate the Opening of the Leisure Centre by the Princess of Wales in 1986.
                         
Stone Type: Marker Stone
Grid Reference: SX/9121/9186
Location: Just inside the Cowick Street entrance to the St Thomas Pleasure Ground.
Inscription: St Thomas Pleasure Ground / Opened 30th of March 1891 / by Mark Farrant Esq. O.C. / Chairman of the Local Board of Health.
 Stone Type: War Memorial Marker Stone
 Grid Reference: SX/9144/9184
 Location: Mounted on the Congregational Church wall in Church Road, St Thomas.
 Inscription: In Honoured Memory of the Men of this Church who Fell and Served in the Great War 1914 - 1918.