The Market Cross is a Grade II* listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 April 1954. Market cross. 3 related planning applications.
The Market Cross
- WRENN ID
- worn-quoin-dale
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 April 1954
- Type
- Market cross
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SU 0061 3a/132 9.4.54.
MARKET PLACE The Market Cross
GII* Erected 1814.Designed by James Wyatt in the place of an earlier cross.The present cross of stone is square in two stages of'Gothic'character,the lower stage has a panel on each face in four-centred and pointed moulded arch;with string and carved balustrade with solid panels over.The upper stage consists of an elaborately buttressed steeple turret with running poppy head enrichment to centre and secondary finials,and standing on a series of pointed cusped arches on buttressed pier supports with additional flying buttress angle supports crowned with pointed and enriched pinnacles.The cross stands on 6 stone steps on large paved octagonal surround.The Cross commemorates the awful story of Ruth Pierce,who wished she might drop dead if she had not paid her share of a sack of corn.Having said so three times,she dropped dead, and the money was found in her hand.All the listed buildings on the South-West Side, South-East Side,Market Hall,Market Cross and the Fountain form a group.
Listing NGR: SU0040661486
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