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| market cross, Carlisle | ||
| Carlisle Cross | ||
| Carel Cross | ||
| Street:- | Market Place | |
| locality:- | Carlisle | |
| civil parish:- | Carlisle (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | market cross | |
| locality type:- | sundial | |
| coordinates:- | NY40095594 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY4055 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY45 | |
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Erected 1682. |
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 BYT25.jpg (taken 9.7.2013)  BLW62.jpg (taken 19.4.2006) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) |
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| source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1
inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29
Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774. D44055E.jpg "Cross" block item:- Carlisle Library : Map 2 Image © Carlisle Library |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Capper 1808 |
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| source data:- | Gazetteer, A Topographical Dictionary of the United Kingdom,
compiled by Benjamin Pitts Capper, published by Richard
Phillips, Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London, 1808; published
1808-29. goto source"[Carlisle] ... The market-place is adorned with a pillar, on the top of which is a lion, ..." |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Market Cross |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "MARKET CROSS / / MARKET PLACE / CARLISLE / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / I / 386807 / NY4008455932" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Also known as: Carlisle Cross." "Market cross. Dated and inscribed JOSEPH REED MAYOR 1682 (the date twice)(on site of earlier medieval market cross). Calciferous sandstone ashlar, partly stuccoed and painted. Column sundial. 5 circular steps (a sixth is now buried) surmounted by square base on chamfered plinth; unfluted Ionic column and sundial head with ball and spear finials at corners, top and bottom; on top is a Lion sitting holding a scroll with the city arms. Each sundial face has incised Roman numerals and painted metal gnomons. Mason's mark on main sundial face ATM (perhaps Thomas Machell, the architect and Thomas Addison, the mason?) Has OS bench mark on top step. For illustration see John Cornforth, Country Life (1978). In the centre of the Market Place opposite the Town Hall. (Country Life: Carnforth, J: 4 May 1978: Keeping life in the Veins: Carlisle II: 1268)." |
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| evidence:- | old painting:- item:- sundial |
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| source data:- | Painting, watercolour, Old Glover's Row, Carlisle, Demolished 1897, Market Place,
Carlisle, Cumberland, by Thomas Bushby, 1896-97. click to enlargePR0892.jpg Busy town square; men, seated on the steps of the market cross, feed the pigeons. Rows of shops stand behind. signed &dated at bottom left:- "Thos. Bushby. 1896-7" inscribed at bottom right:- "Old Glover's Row. Carlisle. Demolished 1897." item:- Tullie House Museum : 1927.33.1 Image © Tullie House Museum |
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| evidence:- | old print:- |
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| source data:- | Print, uncoloured engraving, market cross, Carlisle, Cumberland, published by the
Illustrated London News, 12 August 1882. click to enlargePR0308.jpg Illustrations of place visited by the Royal Archaeological Institute. item:- Dove Cottage : 2008.107.308 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Thurnam 1835 |
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| source data:- | Print, uncoloured lithograph, The Market Cross, and Old Guard House, Carlisle, Cumberland,
drawn by M E Nutter, lithographed by A Picken, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle,
Cumberland, by Ackermann and Co, by Hodgson, Boys, and Graves, and by Charles Tilt,
London, 1835. click to enlargeTHM101.jpg Printed by Day and Haghe, London. Included in Carlisle in the Olden Time. printed at lower left, right, centre:- "Drawn in Zinc by A. Picken. / Printed from Zinc by Day &Haghe, London / The Market Cross, and Old Guard House." item:- Dove Cottage : 2008.123.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old painting:- item:- market; stage coach; coach; horse |
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| source data:- | Painting, watercolour, Carlisle Market Cross from English Street, Carlisle, Cumberland,
by William Henry Nutter, 1835. click to enlargePR1258.jpg View of market square with stallholders and agricultural workers gathered around the market cross with their wares. In the background a stagecoach draws beneath the archway of a hotel. signed &dated at bottom left:- "W.H. Nutter 1835" item:- Tullie House Museum : 1978.108.80 Image © Tullie House Museum |
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| notes:- |
Cumbrian Sundials database, R Sylvester, 29.5.2008:- |
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| "Carlisle / Market Cross in Centre. On tall pillar / N, E ,S and W dials on cube" |
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| made 1682 |
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| British Sundial Society reference number 391 |
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