The elusive Stamford Cross
The Stamford Cross is both more straightforward and more complex than its Grantham sister. We do know for sure that a cross was...
The first of the "disappeared" crosses: Grantham
The Grantham Cross is possibly the most mysterious of all the crosses - there is no contemporaneous record of its construction, and...
Unpicking the route - and mythical crosses
(The Beaumond Cross in Newark. Image Richard Croft for Geograph.org.uk) For today’s tour stop I’m going to deal with the obscurity which...
The procession's first stop: the Lincoln Eleanor Cross
The first Eleanor cross, that at Lincoln, was not erected in the centre of the town. While the route of the procession was dictated by a...
