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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26441394

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Recommended Books

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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version