Chichester Market Cross
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Chichester Market Cross by David Dixon as part of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over 14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Chichester Market Cross
Image: © David Dixon Taken: 7 Aug 2010
The Market Cross stands in the centre of the city of Chichester, at the intersection of its four principal streets North, East, West and South Streets. This view is taken from South Street. It was built so that the poor people should have somewhere to sell their wares. An earlier wooden cross had been erected on the same site. The stone cross was repaired in 1746 and stands to this day. Until the start of the nineteenth century the Cross was used as a market-place; but the increased population of the city requiring a more extensive area for that purpose, a large market-house was, about the year 1807, erected in the North-street. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chichester_Cross for more information
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Image Location
Latitude
50.836531
Longitude
-0.779218