Archaeology Notes

Event ID 710716

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT07NW 11 00216 77170.

(NT 00216 77170) Cross Well (NAT) on the Site of Market Cross (NR)

Solemn League and Covenant publicly burnt here (1662) (NAT)

OS 25" map (1856)

A spring well, covered by a fountain shaped like an imperial crown, erected in 1807. It is a facsimile of the original Cross Well, built in 1620, which was formerly situated a little S of its present position but was removed when the market cross was taken away, and it now covers the site of that object. The supply of water is derived from a fountain-head near Rivald's Green. The Solemn League and Covenant was publicly burned here on the anniversary of the Restoration, in 1662.

Name Book 1856

The Cross Well is as described. The water now comes from the mains.

Visited by OS (BS) 21 March 1974.