Description

SU 0061 3a/132
9.4.54.

MARKET PLACE
The Market Cross

GII*
Erected 1814.Designed by James Wyatt in the place of an earlier cross.The present cross of stone is square in two stages of'Gothic'character,the lower stage has a panel on each face in four-centred and pointed moulded arch;with string and carved balustrade with solid panels over.The upper stage consists of an elaborately buttressed steeple turret with running poppy head enrichment to centre and secondary finials,and standing on a series of pointed cusped arches on buttressed pier supports with additional flying buttress angle supports crowned with pointed and enriched pinnacles.The cross stands on 6 stone steps on large paved octagonal surround.The Cross commemorates the awful story of Ruth Pierce,who wished she might drop dead if she had not paid her share of a sack of corn.Having said so three times,she dropped dead, and the money was found in her hand.All the listed buildings on the South-West Side, South-East Side,Market Hall,Market Cross and the Fountain form a group.

Listing NGR: SU0040661486

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Market Cross, Devizes at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17543948

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