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market cross, Burton-in-Kendal
Street:-   Main Street
locality:-   Burton-in-Kendal
civil parish:-   Burton-in-Kendal (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   market cross
coordinates:-   SD53017644
1Km square:-   SD5376
10Km square:-   SD57


photograph
BJS09.jpg  The plaque says that Burton had a market charter from Charles II, 1661; the cross was erected by public subscription, 18th century.
(taken 12.8.2005)  
photograph
BOC49.jpg (taken 5.9.2007)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 47 13) 
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.
"Cross"

evidence:-   old text:- Harper 1907
source data:-   HP01p098.txt
Page 98:-  "... a narrow street of grey stone houses opens into a little square where the granite pillar of a market-cross, reared upon three steps, stands, bearing witness to an importance otherwise not only past, but almost forgotten. ..."
HP01p099.txt
Page 99:-  "..."
image  click to enlarge
HP0104.jpg
"THE MARKET CROSS AND PILLORY, BURTON-IN-KENDAL."
"..."
item:-  JandMN : 1055.5
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"MARKET CROSS / / THE SQUARE / BURTON IN KENDAL / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76661 / SD5301676432"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Market Cross. C18. Dressed limestone. Corniced tapering column, with moulded square base, on plinth with chamfered base set on 3 octagonal steps. South-west face of 2nd step has indentations said to be remains of leg-irons used as stocks."


photograph
BOC50.jpg  Fixings for shackles on the base of the market cross.
(taken 5.9.2007)  

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