Katherine'S Cross Ampthill Park is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 July 1951. Monument.

Katherine'S Cross Ampthill Park

WRENN ID
pale-transept-burdock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Central Bedfordshire
Country
England
Date first listed
17 July 1951
Type
Monument
Source
Historic England listing

Description

  1. 774 Katherine's Cross Ampthill Park

TL 0238 5/3 17.7.51

II

  1. Tall stone cross of Gothic design, erected by James Essex in 1773 for John, Second Earl of Upper Ossory, to mark the site of Ampthill Castle. The cross bears a shield of England impaling Aragon and an inscription by Horace Walpole, commemorating 'The mournful refuge of an injured queen'. See VCH, page 270.

Listing NGR: TL0257538351

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