Site of Medieval Market Cross at Market Hill, Southam
Description of this historic site
Documentary evidence suggests that this is the site of a market cross of which no trace survives. The site was to the east of St James's Church, Southam.
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Notes about this historic site
1 A cross in the market place is mentioned early in the 15th century.
2 There is no cross in Southam today.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
Comments
My paternal grandmother taught at the primary school in Southam in about the mid 1950s. The Head Mistress of the school lived in the white house on the corner in the forefront of the photograph. Apparently she bred Persian cats. Her brother worked for the Anglo Iranian Oil Company in Iran. She ended up joining her brother in Iran, teaching the children of the Anglo Iranian Oil Company employees. When I mentioned the market cross being there, my father says that he thinks he remembers there being the remains of one there (or at least the base of it), at about that time. It was in a very bad state of repair
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