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© Dr John L. Wishlade
IoE Number:
470240
Location:
CHESTER HIGH CROSS, EASTGATE STREET AND ROW
CHESTER, CHESTER, CHESHIRE
Photographer:
Dr John L. Wishlade
Date Photographed:
14 August 2002
Date listed:
28 July 1955
Date of last amendment:
06 August 1998
Grade
II
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CHESTER CITY (IM)
SJ4066SE EASTGATE STREET AND ROW
595-1/4/149 Chester High Cross
28/07/55
(Formerly Listed as:
The High Cross)
GV II
Cross. C14 origin but now in greater part modern. Red
sandstone. Hexagonal crown on 3 steps, plinth and shaft, all
octagonal. The steps, plinth and shaft are modern; the crown
is C14 and the moulded shaft-base is probably medieval. The
crown is badly weathered and capped by a more recent tapered
finial surmounted by a ball.
Each side of the crown had a niche of which 2 are weathered
away, formerly containing statuary. Demolished probably after
the surrender of Chester to the Parliamentarians in 1646,
fragments discovered early C19 were erected near the Newgate
in 1949, and restored to the Cross in 1975.
(Bartholomew City Guides: Harris B: Chester: Edinburgh: 1979-:
47-48).