White Cross of the Low
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
1600 - 1699
Materials
Limestone
Measurements
184 x 36 cm
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Peckover House, Cambridgeshire
NT 781691
Summary
Remains of a seventeenth-century preaching cross. Carved limestone. Shaft of the medieval white cross, which formerly stood at the Low, at the end of Chapel Lane. It was demolished and thrown into the river during the Civil War, and was recovered during dredging about 1795, when it was erected on a new base in the garden. Inscribed 'White Cross of the Low', Mounted on double square plinth.
Provenance
This medieval white limestone cross, which formerly stood at the Low, at the end of Chapel Lane, Wisbech, was demolished and thrown into the River Nene during the Civil War. It was later recovered during dredging about 1795, when it was erected on a new base in the garden of Bank House.