Market cross
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A market cross, or in Scots, a mercat cross, is a structure used to mark a market square in market towns, where historically the right to hold a regular market or fair was granted by the monarch, a bishop or a baron.
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History
Market crosses were originally from the distinctive tradition in Early Medieval Insular art of free-standing stone standing or high crosses, often elaborately carved, which goes back to the 7th century. Market crosses can be found in many market towns in Britain.[1] British emigrants often installed such crosses in their new cities, and several can be found in Canada and Australia.[2]
The market cross could be representing the official site for a medieval town or village market, granted by a charter, or it could have once represented a traditional religious marking at a crossroads.[2]
Design
These structures range from carved stone spires, obelisks or crosses, common to small market towns such as that in Stalbridge, Dorset,[3] to large, ornate covered structures, such as the Chichester Cross,[4] or Malmesbury Market Cross.[5] They can also be constructed from wood; an example is at Wymondham, Norfolk.[6]
Towns and villages in the British isles with a market cross
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- Aberdeen[7]
- Aberford[8]
- Abbots Bromley[9]
- Aldbourne[10]
- Alfriston[11]
- Alnwick[12]
- Alston[13]
- Ambleside[14]
- Ashbourne[15]
- Austwick (Base and pillar remaining)[16]
- Askrigg[17]
- Austwick[18]
- Aylburton[19]
B
- Banbury[20]
- Barnard Castle[21]
- Barrow upon Humber[22]
- Bawtry[23][24]
- Bedale[25]
- Belford[26]
- Beverley[27]
- Billesdon (x2)[28][29]
- Bingham[30]
- Bingley[31]
- Binham[32]
- Bishops Lydeard[33]
- Bodenham[34]
- Bonsall[35]
- Boroughbridge[36]
- Bottesford, Leicestershire[37]
- Bourton, Vale of White Horse[38]
- Bovey Tracey[39]
- Brandesburton[40]
- Brigstock[41]
- Bromborough[42]
- Brough (Original block and socket remaining)[43]
- Buckingham[44]
- Bungay[45]
- Burnley[46]
- Bedlington[47]
- Bury St. Edmunds[48]
- Burton-in-Kendal[49]
- Buxton[50]
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- Caldbeck[51]
- Carlisle[52]
- Castle Combe[53][54]
- Castle Rising[55]
- Chapel-en-le-Frith[56][57]
- Cheadle, Staffordshire[58]
- Cheddar[59][60]
- Chester[61]
- Chichester[62][63]
- Chipping Sodbury
- Chipping Warden[64]
- Colne[65]
- Clowne[66]
- Corbridge (x2)[67][68]
- Corby Glen[69]
- Corfe Castle[70]
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- Crich[71]
- Cricklade[72]
- Culross[73]
- Culworth[74]
- Cumnock[75]
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- Dalton-in-Furness[76]
- Darlington
- Devizes[77]
- Dunchurch[78]
- Dundee
- Dunkeld
- Dunstable
- Yarn Market, Dunster
E
- Edinburgh
- Easingwold[79]
- East Hagbourne
- Elstow[80]
- Emley, West Yorkshire[81]
- Enfield Town[82]
- Epworth[83]
- Eynsham[84][85]
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- Garstang[86]
- Giggleswick[87]
- Glasgow
- Glastonbury[88]
- Glossop
- Grampound with Creed[89]
- Grantham[90][91]
- Guisborough[92]
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- Harringworth[93][94]
- Helmsley[95]
- Helpston[96]
- Henley-in-Arden[97]
- Hereford
- Higham Ferrers[98][99]
- Highburton
- Hillmorton[100]
- Hooton Pagnell[101]
- Howden[102]
- Holsworthy[103]
- Holt
- Huddersfield[104]
- Hunmanby[105]
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- Keighley
- King Sterndale[108]
- King's Cliffe[109]
- Kirkby in Ashfield
- Kirkby Lonsdale (x2)[110][111]
- Kirkby Malzeard[112]
- Kirkbymoorside[113]
- Knaresborough[114]
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- Lambourn[115]
- Launceston, Cornwall[116]
- Lavenham[117]
- Leek[118][119]
- Leicester
- Leigh, Greater Manchester[120]
- Leighton–Linslade[121]
- Leighton Buzzard[122]
- Lerwick
- Lower Holker[123]
- Lund, East Riding of Yorkshire[124]
- Lydney[125]
- Lyneham, Wiltshire[126]
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- Maiden Newton
- Maltby, South Yorkshire[127]
- Mark, Somerset[128]
- Market Deeping
- Malmesbury[129]
- Mansfield[130]
- Mansfield Woodhouse[131]
- Martock[132]
- Masham[133]
- Maybole
- Melbourne, Derbyshire[134]
- Metheringham[135]
- Middleham[136][137]
- Middleton-in-Teesdale[138]
- Mildenhall[139]
- Milnthorpe[140]
- Minchinhampton
- Minehead[141]
- Monk Bretton[142]
- Mountsorrel[143]
N
- Newcastle-under-Lyme[144]
- Newport, Wales
- Newport, Shropshire[145]
- Newsham, Richmondshire[146]
- Newton Abbot[147]
- North Frodingham[148]
- North Kyme[149]
- North Turton[150]
- North Tawton[151]
- North Walsham[152]
- New Buckenham
- Northallerton
- Nunney[153]
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R
- Reach, Cambridgeshire[162]
- Repton[163]
- Ripley, North Yorkshire[164]
- Ripon
- Rochdale[165]
- Rockingham, Northamptonshire[166]
- Rothesay
- Rutherglen[167]
S
- Saffron Walden
- Salisbury
- Sedgemoor[168]
- Selby[169]
- Shap
- Shepton Mallet[170]
- Somerton[171][172]
- Spilsby[173]
- St Albans
- Stalbridge[174]
- Stamfordham
- Standish, Greater Manchester[175]
- Stanhope, County Durham (x2)[176][177][178]
- Steeple Ashton[179]
- Stockton-on-Tees[180][181]
- Stow-on-the-Wold[182]
- Stretham
- Sturminster Newton[183]
- Swaffham[184]
- Swineshead, Lincolnshire[185]
- Swinton (Berwickshire)
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U
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- Wainfleet All Saints[190][191]
- Wantage[192]
- Warkworth, Northumberland[193]
- Wedmore[194]
- Wells[195]
- West Bedlington[196]
- West Burton
- West Malling, Kent
- Weston, Runcorn[197]
- Whittlesey[198]
- Wigtown (x2)
- Williton (x2)[199][200]
- Winchester
- Witney
- Woodhouse, South Yorkshire[201]
- Wymondham[202]
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Notes
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