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market cross, Kirkby Lonsdale
Street:-   Market Square
locality:-   Kirkby Lonsdale
civil parish:-   Kirkby Lonsdale (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   market cross
coordinates:-   SD61167862
1Km square:-   SD6178
10Km square:-   SD67


photograph
BPW70.jpg  Rebuilt 1905, though including bits of old stone?
(taken 2.1.2009)  

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"MARKET CROSS / / MARKET SQUARE / KIRKBY LONSDALE / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75207 / SD6117278621"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"1905. Tudor Gothic. Octagonal stone canopy with low pyramidal slate roof. Eight equal arches with leaf enrichment in spandrels, four blocked with low parapets. Each pier buttressed with two setbacks and topped by an obelisk and ball. Round headed niches in each buttress. Parapet embattled. Large stone cross at apex of roof. Inside shallow stone rib vault supported on engaged colonnettes. Inscription on frieze in raised Gothic script: "This Market Cross was presented to the town by the Rev J.W.Davies D.D. Vicar of Kirkby-Lonsdale from 1889 to 1908. 1905"."

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