Cross, Sometimes Known As Lord Dacres Cross is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 February 1967. A Medieval Cross.
Cross, Sometimes Known As Lord Dacres Cross
- WRENN ID
- standing-rubble-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 February 1967
- Type
- Cross
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SAXTON WITH SCARTHINGWELL TOWTON ROAD SE 43 NE (west side) 3/30 Cross, sometimes known as Lord Dacre's Cross 3.2.67 II
Cross. C15. Magnesian limestone ashlar. Reputedly for Lord Dacre. Tapering squared shaft below wheel head cross, set in splayed base on stepped modern plinth, the whole approximately 2 metres high. Locally said to mark Lord Dacre's or one of the graves, after the Battle of Towton in 1461. Richard III founded a chapel at Towton "in token of praier and for the souls of the men slain at Palme Sunday Field" but it was never finished. Probably the cross was brought from there, to serve partly as a memorial to Towton Field, which it overlooks, and partly as a boundary stone. Pevsner N, Yorkshire, The West Riding, 1979, p 432.
Listing NGR: SE4782838639
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