Monument record 523/3/1 - Market Cross at Lymm

<1> Vallance A, 1920, Old Crosses and Lychgates, p.157 (Book). SCH2324.

Market Cross originally Medieval. The Market Cross at Lymm is an unusual structure, standing on the top of a boulder with steps partly hewn out of the natural rock.

<2> Ormerod, G., 1882, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, Vol.1 p.581 (Book). SCH1389.

Site of the original cross is occupied by a later cross - the centre pillar is probably part of the former cross.

<3> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 423766 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Cross, largely early to mid seventeenth century, restored 1897. Sandstone on an artificially stepped natural outcrop of red sandstone. Buff masonry. The shaft of the Cross, on a square base of 5 steps with coved treads, stands in a pavilion of red sandstone with square corner pillars which have rudely moulded bases and bell capitals carrying a stone roof with a pedimented gable to each face, and ball finials. The ridge-crossing carries a tapered extension to the shaft of the cross (probably seventeenth century) on which is a stone ball and an ornate weathervane. On the east, south and west gables are bronze sundials of 1897 inscribed We are a Shadow; Save Time; Think of the Last.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 1870-1982, Ordnance Survey Archaeological Record Card, SJ68 NE 8 (Index). SCH2487.