The Boyle Cross is a Grade II listed[1] structure located in the town centre of Frome in Somerset, England.[2] Directly across the road from the George Hotel, it functions as a market cross for the town. It was erected in 1871 and was designed by the Victorian artist Eleanor Vere Boyle, the wife of Richard Boyle, a chaplain to Queen Victoria who was by then rector of the nearby village of Marston Bigot. He was a descendant of the Anglo-Irish Earls of Cork, long-standing landowners in the area. It was sculpted of Devon marble and weighs approximately a ton. The land for the cross was donated by the Ninth Earl of Cork.[3] Catherine Hill begins a little to the west of the Boyle Cross.
Originally designed as a fountain supplied by a channel running down from a well at the Church of St John the Baptist, this function has been restored in recent years.
References
edit- ^ Historic England. "Cross near opening to Cheap Street, Market Place (1345502)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
- ^ Lassman p.186
- ^ https://www.discoverfrome.co.uk/attraction/market-place/
Bibliography
edit- Lassman, David. Frome at War 1939–45. Pen and Sword Military, 2020.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus. South and West Somerset. Yale University Press, 2001.
- Pickering, Andrew & Kearley, Gary. Secret Frome. Amberley Publishing, 2019.
51°13′52″N 2°19′17″W / 51.23110°N 2.32145°W
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