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Low Cross, Appleby
Low Cross
Street:-   Boroughgate
locality:-   Appleby
civil parish:-   Appleby-in-Westmorland (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   cross
locality type:-   sundial
coordinates:-   NY68332039
1Km square:-   NY6820
10Km square:-   NY62


photograph
BOI90.jpg  On the the pillar at the bottom of Boroughgate.
(taken 10.11.2007)  
photograph
BOI91.jpg  On the the pillar at the bottom of Boroughgate.
(taken 10.11.2007)  

evidence:-   old map:- Hill 1754
placename:-  Low Cross
source data:-   Town plan, A Plan of Appleby in Westmorland, scale about 32 ins to 1 mile, engraved by Nathaniel Hill, 1754.
image  click to enlarge
M010P2.jpg
"Low Cross"
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 211
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Low Cross
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"LOW CROSS / / BOROUGHGATE / APPLEBY IN WESTMORLAND / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 73617 / NY6833820391"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Identical to High Cross, of which it is supposed to be an C18 copy. Stone Tuscan column on square base and with a square cubical top."

notes:-  
Cumbrian Sundials database, R Sylvester, 29.5.2008:-
"Appleby / Foot of Boroughgate. Low Cross / On tall stone column"
made 1670
British Sundial Society reference number 1138

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