The Market Cross, Market Place

Market Cross, late C18.

MATERIALS: ashlar plinth, pedestal and shaft.

PLAN: quatrefoil plan, raised on a square-plan podium.

The Market Cross is of a neo-classical conception with Gothic details, standing on a modern square-plan, three-step ashlar podium. The pedestal has a quatrefoil plan, rising off a shallow plinth. Each foil has a moulded cornice and terminates in a semi-cone, abutting a face of the base of the cruciform shaft. Each face of the base has a vertical surface with an eroded gable, which in turn have badly eroded gargoyles where the lower ends of each gable meet. Although badly eroded, the gables appear to have been crocketed. Above the gabled base, the cross tapers steeply to form a pyramidal shaft, which retains the cruciform plan at its eroded apex.