Crosses

Although the symbol itself is pre-christian, relics of old stone crosses that scatter Britain, generally relate to a period in history when the christian cult was sweeping the landscape and afflicting the lives of indigenous people.  The archaeological stone crosses that remain tended to be positioned where earlier heathen sites were found – and as a result of this, it’s important to include them on TNA as relics marking an attempt to alter human animistic relationships with the land, to an increasingly desacralized one.  These stone relics took various forms, each relating to the function of the site it meant to supplant or impress: market crosses, boundary crosses, village crosses, wayside crosses, etc.

CROSSES:  Bibliography & References

1. Abel Cross, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire
2. Acrehowe Cross, Baildon Moor, West Yorkshire
3. Adam’s Cross, Saddleworth Moor, Lancashire
4. Adamnan’s Cross, Camusvrachan, Glen Lyon, Perthshire
5. Annel Cross, Twiston, Lancashire
6. Annot Cross, Lane Bottom, Brierfield, Lancashire
7. Banbury Cross, Banbury, Oxfordshire
8. Barton Cross, Barton, Lancashire
9. Bingley Cross, West Yorkshire
10. Black Knoll Cross, Morton Moor, West Yorkshire
11. Blacko Cross, Barrowford, Lancashire
12. Boskenna Cross, St. Buryan, Cornwall
13. Bread Cross, Banbury, Oxfordshire
14. Broken Cross, Westminster, London, Middlesex
15. Butt Yeats Cross, Hornby, Lancashire
16. Catshaw Cross, Thurlstone, South Yorkshire
17. Church Cross, Newchurch-in-Pendle, Lancashire
18. Churchyard Cross, Hornsea – East Yorkshire
19. Churchyard Cross, Prestbury, Lancashire
20. Coombe Hill Cross, Wycoller, Lancashire
21. Cow Cross, Finsbury, London, Middlesex
22. Cowper’s Cross, Ilkley Moor, West Yorkshire
23. Corwen, Denbighshire, Wales
24. Cowcliffe Cross, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
25. Curwen Hall Cross, Hornby, Lancashire
26. Deighton Cross, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
27. Dull, Aberfeldy, Perthshire
28. Duncroisk Crosses Stone, Glen Lochay, Killin, Perthshire
29. Dyke Nook Cross, Clitheroe, Lancashire
30. East Riddlesden, Keighley, West Yorkshire
31. Eastwoods Cross Base, Summerbridge , North Yorkshire
32. Eaves Green Cross, Goosnargh, Lancashire
33. Emmott Cross, Colne, Lancashire
34. Exley Head Cross, Keighley, West Yorkshire
35. Eyam Cross, Eyam, Derbyshire
36. Fairy Hill Cross, Rishworth Moor, West Yorkshire
37. Fearby Cross, Masham, North Yorkshire
38. Foldys Cross, Towneley, Burnley, Lancashire
39. Golcar Cross, West Yorkshire
40. Great Puddingstone Cross, Harrogate, North Yorkshire
41. Greystone Cross, Blacko, Barrowford, Lancashire
42. Grimeford Cross, Adlington, Lancashire
43. Handsome Cross, High Bradfield, South Yorkshire
44. Hangman’s Bank, Preston, Lancashire
45. Hawk Hill, Alloa, Clackmannanshire
46. Headless Cross, Grimeford, Adlington, Lancashire – see Grimeford Cross
47. Hebden Wood Cross, Slack, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire
48. Herders Cross, Wycoller, Lancashire
49. High Cross, Shrewsbury, Shropshire
50. Hill Chapel Cross, Goosnargh, Lancashire
51. Idol Cross, Cornholme – see Mount Cross
52. Ilkley Crosses, West Yorkshire
53. Keighley Cross, West Yorkshire – see Market Cross, Keighley
54. Laycock Cross, Keighley, West Yorkshire
55. Lilla Cross, Fylingdales Moor, North Yorkshire
56. Lytham Cross, Lytham, Lancashire
57. Maen Achwyfan, Whitford, Flintshire 
58. Maiden or Tailor’s Cross, Foulridge, Lancashire
59. Market Cross, Bradford, West Yorkshire
60. Market Cross, Glanton, Northumberland
61. Market Cross, Glastonbury, Somerset
62. Market Cross, Highburton, West Yorkshire
63. Market Cross, Kincardine, Fife
64. Market Cross, Keighley, West Yorkshire
65. Market Cross, Halesowen, Worcestershire
66. Market Cross, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire
67. Market Cross, Skipton, North Yorkshire
68. Market Cross, Thornton-le-Dale, North Yorkshire
69. Marsden Heights Cross, Nelson, Lancashire
70. Marsh Cross, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
71. Mercat Cross, Alloa – see Town Cross
72. Mercat Cross, Clackmannan, Clackmannanshire
73. Mercat Cross, Doune, Stirlingshire
74. Mercat Cross, Stirling, Stirlingshire
75. Mitton Church Cross, Great Mitton, Lancashire
76. Mitton Green, Great Mitton, Lancashire
77. Mount Cross, Cornholme, West Yorkshire
78. Netherurd Mains, Kirkurd, Peeblesshire
79. Nick o’ Pendle Cross, Sabden, Lancashire
80. Old Market Cross, Sedbergh, Cumbria
81. Oxenhope Cross, West Yorkshire
82. Pendle Cross, Newchurch-in-Pendle, Lancashire
83. Pillar of Eliseg, Pentrefelin, Llangollen, Denbighshire
84. Plague Stone, Adel, Leeds, West Yorkshire
85. Market Cross, Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire
86. Ralph’s Cross, Westerdale Moor, North Yorkshire
87. Ratten Clough Cross, Emmot Moor, Lancashire
88. Reap’s Cross, Heptonstall Moor, West Yorkshire
89. Rocester Church Cross, Staffordshire
90. St. James Church, Burton-in-Kendal, Cumbria
91. St. Paul’s Cross, London, Middlesex
92. St. Peter’s Cross, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire
93. Salford Cross, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire
94. Shay Cross, Wiswell, Lancashire
95. Slaithwaite Cross, West Yorkshire
96. Strand Cross, Westminster, London, Middlesex
97. Stump Cross, Goosnargh, Lancashire
98. Stump Cross, Haworth, West Yorkshire
99. Swastika Stone, Kirkurd – see Netherurd Mains, Peeblesshire
100. Swinden Cross, Foulridge, Colne, Lancashire
101. Thursday Market Cross, York, North Yorkshire
102. Tom Cross, Colne, Lancashire
103. Tom Cross, Laneshaw Bridge, Lancashire
104. Town Cross, Alloa, Clackmannanshire
105. Upper Cross, Newchurch-in-Pendle, Lancashire
106. Water Sheddles Cross, Oakworth Moor, West Yorkshire
107. Wayside Cross, Hornsea, East Yorkshire
108. Whalley Crosses, Lancashire
109. White Cross, Banbury, Oxfordshire
110. Withgill Cross, Great Mitton, Lancashire

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