Banbury Cross
- Date:
- 15 Jun 2002
- Location:
- Banbury Cross, Horse Fair, Banbury, Cherwell, Oxfordshire, OX16 0YA
- Reference:
- IOE01/07624/01
- Type:
- Photograph (Digital)
This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.
BANBURY HORSE FAIR SP4540SW 9/72 Banbury Cross 07/10/69 GV II*
Banbury Cross. 1858 by J. Gibbs of Oxford to comemmorate the marriage of Victoria, Princess Royal, to the Crown Prince of Prussia. Additions made in 1914 include the figures of Queen Victoria, Edward VII and George V. Carved by Boulton and Sons. Limestone. In the style of an Eleanor Cross with niches, statues and small spire. 3 medieval crosses are mentioned in Banbury. There is no evidence that a medieval cross stood in Horse Fair but the site was probably selected for the 1858 cross because the historian Alfred Beesley writing in 1841 considered that it had been the site of the principal cross at Banbury. From medieval times onwards Banbury Cross has assumed significance as a local landmark.
(V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.X, p.23; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, 1974, p.437)
Listing NGR: SP4532440399
This is part of the Series: IOE01/1517 IOE Records taken by Barry Paginton; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England
© Mr Barry Paginton. Source: Historic England Archive
This photograph was taken for the Images of England project
Photographer: Paginton, Barry
Rights Holder: Paginton, Barry
Limestone, Victorian Town Cross, Religious Ritual And Funerary, Cross, Commemorative Monument, Commemorative
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