Monument record 567 - The White Cross

<1> Beamont W, 1849, Warrington in 1465: As Described in a Contemporary Rent Roll of the Legh Family, in the Possession of Thomas Legh, Esquire, of Lyme Park, p.23 (Book). SCH3689.

The White Cross is referred to in a manuscript dating from as being located near to a property owned by the Leghs of Lyme. It is described as ‘near to the White Cross, which stands in the way leading from the aforesaid town as far as the bridge of Sankey’. Includes a map of Warrington which depicts Le Whyte Cross at the west end of Sonkey Gate.

<2> Taylor H, 1902, The Ancient Crosses of Lancashire, p.216-7 (Article in Journal). SCH8616.

The site of this cross is marked on the Ordnance Survey map as half a mile west of the centre of the town close to Bank Hall and three hundred yards to the north of the river. It was reputedly the site of the annual Calf Gin fair (see 5).

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1870-1982, Ordnance Survey Archaeological Record Card, SJ58 NE5 (Index). SCH2487.

<4> Longley D, 1977-1978, Longley Archive, no.290 (Paper Archive). SCH2005.

<5> Beamont W, 1887, Walks about Warrington (Book). SCH3666.

<6> Ordnance Survey, 1850-1, Five-feet to the Mile Scale Town Plan of Warrington (Maps and Plans). SCH4485.

This map depicts three adjacent buildings of Bank Quay Road and Sankey Green Lane named White Cross, White Cross House and White Cross Bank.