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ANCIENT STONE CROSSES.
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At Blore Heath, Staffordshire, is a cross which was erected to commemorate a
battle fought there in 1459.
" About six miles from Dundee, (Scotland,) is Camus Cross, erected in memory
of Camus, the Danish general, who being defeated at Panbride, on this coast, and
retreating towards Murray, was surrounded by the victorious Scots, and lost his life
on this spot," *
In Brittany is a cross which was raised to perpetuate the memory of a battle
fought there in 13-50.f
Near Langley Abbey, in Norfolk, is the shaft of a cross, ornamented with
canopies, niches, statues, &c. Here was a Premonstratensian monastery founded in
1198. Blomefield, in his prolix History of Norfolk, does not mention this elegant
pillar : hut it is well represented in the Gentleman's Magazine, January, 1806.
At Stalbridge, in Dorsetshire, is a cross, similar in shape, and ornamented with
statues, niches,' armorial bearings, &c. % Another at Henley in Arden, in the county
of Warwick, partakes of the same character.
At Doncaster, Yorkshire, is a monumental pillar, composed of a shaft, and four
round pillars attached to it, mounted on four steps. An inscription, in Norman
French, implies—" This is the cross of Ote de Tilli, on whose soul God have mercy.
Amen." Tilli, according to Mr. Gough, " was senescallus comitis de Conigbroc t.
Stephen and Henry II. and witness to several grants of lands in this neighbour-
hood to abbies."§
In the street of Cricklade, Wiltshire, is a cross raised on steps, (see Plate A,
fig- 1.) This is ornamented with quatrefoils on the base and niches, with canopies
at the top ; these appear to have been formerly decorated with statues, as a similar
cross is situated close to one of the churches in the same town, and contains the
crucifixion in alto relievo, with other figures.
Cornwall abounds with stone crosses, which are chiefly formed by a single shaft
of granite, or moorstone, and are mostly very plain. In church-yards, by the side
of roads, and on the open trackless downs, they remain solitary and neglected,
though among the lower class of people there is a sort of superstitious reverence
still paid to these monuments. Many of them have been removed from their primary
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* Cough's Camden, Vol. III. p. 406. t Archrcologia, Vol. IV. p. 145, &c.
t This is engraved and described in Cough's edition of Hutchins's History of that County.
§ Cough's Camden, Vol. III. p. 34.
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At Blore Heath, Staffordshire, is a cross which was erected to commemorate a
battle fought there in 1459.
" About six miles from Dundee, (Scotland,) is Camus Cross, erected in memory
of Camus, the Danish general, who being defeated at Panbride, on this coast, and
retreating towards Murray, was surrounded by the victorious Scots, and lost his life
on this spot," *
In Brittany is a cross which was raised to perpetuate the memory of a battle
fought there in 13-50.f
Near Langley Abbey, in Norfolk, is the shaft of a cross, ornamented with
canopies, niches, statues, &c. Here was a Premonstratensian monastery founded in
1198. Blomefield, in his prolix History of Norfolk, does not mention this elegant
pillar : hut it is well represented in the Gentleman's Magazine, January, 1806.
At Stalbridge, in Dorsetshire, is a cross, similar in shape, and ornamented with
statues, niches,' armorial bearings, &c. % Another at Henley in Arden, in the county
of Warwick, partakes of the same character.
At Doncaster, Yorkshire, is a monumental pillar, composed of a shaft, and four
round pillars attached to it, mounted on four steps. An inscription, in Norman
French, implies—" This is the cross of Ote de Tilli, on whose soul God have mercy.
Amen." Tilli, according to Mr. Gough, " was senescallus comitis de Conigbroc t.
Stephen and Henry II. and witness to several grants of lands in this neighbour-
hood to abbies."§
In the street of Cricklade, Wiltshire, is a cross raised on steps, (see Plate A,
fig- 1.) This is ornamented with quatrefoils on the base and niches, with canopies
at the top ; these appear to have been formerly decorated with statues, as a similar
cross is situated close to one of the churches in the same town, and contains the
crucifixion in alto relievo, with other figures.
Cornwall abounds with stone crosses, which are chiefly formed by a single shaft
of granite, or moorstone, and are mostly very plain. In church-yards, by the side
of roads, and on the open trackless downs, they remain solitary and neglected,
though among the lower class of people there is a sort of superstitious reverence
still paid to these monuments. Many of them have been removed from their primary
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* Cough's Camden, Vol. III. p. 406. t Archrcologia, Vol. IV. p. 145, &c.
t This is engraved and described in Cough's edition of Hutchins's History of that County.
§ Cough's Camden, Vol. III. p. 34.