Boyle Cross

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The Boyle Cross in 2008. It has since been restored as a fountain. The Boyle Cross, Frome - geograph.org.uk - 866469.jpg
The Boyle Cross in 2008. It has since been restored as a fountain.
The Cross and surrounding buildings in 2011. Frome, Market Place - geograph.org.uk - 2236382.jpg
The Cross and surrounding buildings in 2011.

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 descendent 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.

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References

  1. ↑ Historic England. "Cross near opening to Cheap Street, Market Place (1345502)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 5 June 2023.
  2. ↑ Lassman p.186
  3. ↑ https://www.discoverfrome.co.uk/attraction/market-place/

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