The Poultry Cross

SILVER STREET 1. 1594 (North Side) The Poultry Cross SU 1429 NW 3/327 28.2.52. I GV 2. Standing at the Junction of Minster and Silver Streets. C14. Hexagonal open arched shelter with buttressed piers enriched with carved and panelled pinnacles. The arches are flat segmental shaped and moulded with drip turned up in a point over centre rind under base of a carved and pinnacled niche. A central stone shaft with a stone seat round at the base, is carried up through a lead roof and originally finished with a sundial block. Some enthusiastic stonemason of local importance and envious of a similar cross at Chichester, added a series of flying buttresses meeting in the centre and covering the sundial and topped with a hexagonal block with a niche on each face, crowned with a pinnacle and cross. All the upper addition is C19 though well done of its kind. The cross was originally surrounded by a square of stone seats which have now been removed. Drawings exist in the Museum showing original state. AM.

The Poultry Cross and Nos 36 to 52 (even) form a group. No 36 forms a group with Nos 1 to 17 (odd) Minster Street qv the rear elevations of which form a group with those of Nos 36 to 52 (even) and with St Thomas's Church, St Thomas's Square qv.

Listing NGR: SU1438029956