Old Crosses and Lychgates

The genesis of this book was an article on "Churchyard Crosses," written by request for the _Burlington Magazine_, and published therein in September 1918. It was at a time when...

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In addition to the principal cross--the High Cross--of Chester, there was one near St Michael's church. Another cross stood at Barrs, one at Northgate, and another at Spittal Bo...

In addition to the several kinds of crosses above enumerated, some writers name "weeping crosses." What is meant by a weeping cross is not clear, nor has anyone pretended to ass...

The churchyard cross at Dorchester, Oxfordshire (Fig. 65), had lost its original head by the time that Buckler made his sketch in 1813. According to him, the lower step was 6 in...

Two interesting Herefordshire examples, brought to light a few years ago, have been reinstalled under the auspices of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (as rec...

The famous Eleanor cross of Northampton (Figs. 1, 126) stands about a mile distant from the town, and actually in the parish of Hardingston. The monument is picturesquely placed...

In 1457 Bishop Pecocke, of Chichester, a prelate, so it would appear, of sadly "modernist" tendencies, made his submission at Paul's Cross, abjured his unorthodoxy, and submitte...

At Shepton Mallet a market cross (Fig. 152) was erected in 1500 by private benefaction, as recorded on the original engraved brass, or latten plate, attached to the structure. T...

At Dunster, Somersetshire, the Yarn-Market Cross, as it is called, is octagonal on plan, with an immense span of roof relieved by dormers (Fig. 177). "The arrangement of the tim...

"It is difficult," says Herbert North in _The Old Churches of Arllechwedd_, "to conjecture the date of the local lychgates." Of six specimens, past and present, noted by him in...