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Boyle Cross

Boyle Cross

Historic monument in Frome, England


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.

The Boyle Cross in 2008. It has since been restored as a fountain.
The Cross and surrounding buildings in 2011.

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

  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

Bibliography

  • 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



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