Lymm Cross

Image: © David Dixon Taken: 22 Mar 2012

Lymm Cross is a Grade I listed structure which stands in the heart of the village, on its ancient steps carved from red sandstone. The Cross resembles a market cross in a market square but there is no evidence that there has ever been a market in Lymm. It may originally have been built to mark as a meeting place or a designated point for religious services before the church in Lymm existed. The cross as it stands today, with its ornate weather vane on the canopy and sundials on each gable of the canopy, is a Queen Victoria Memorial, which commemorates her diamond jubilee in 1897. The "original” cross, the shaft of which stands in the square pavilion, can be dated back to the middle 17th Century (one of the four pillars supporting the square pavilion bears the inscription 1775) but might have possibly replaced an older one from Saxon or even Roman times. The set of replica stocks, at the foot of The Cross, replaced the original ones dating back to 1775. More information at http://lymm.com/about/lymm-cross (Lymm.com)

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