I suspect that there is more than one Market Cross in England; more than
one hundred I would guess.
Chris
~~~~~ John Hudson said:
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tomoko Yamamoto <tomokoy@xxxxxxxxx>
>To: Olympus List <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Date: Tuesday, July 06, 1999 9:52 PM
>Subject: Re: [OM] The rotunda - solved [Was: Long - An Irish Mystery
>
>
>>Look at the Market Cross at the site below.
>>http://info.pitt.edu/~medart/menuengl/mainchi.html
>>
>>I am curious how John Hudson managed to find this. I tried searching
>"market
>>cross" in altavista, but had not found the Market Cross when I guessed
>something
>>similar to the Poultry Cross in Salisbury, but not identical in the type of
>>architecture.
>
>I sent the URL of the image taken in the 1930 [?] to "This England" magazine
>and asked if they could identify the whereabouts of the structure. Given
>that this publication is most likely the most patriotic and most English of
>all English magazines I thought that the odds were pretty good that the
>editor would identify the structure! I was right. I got a response in a
>couple of days.
>
>Comparing the present day image at:
>
>http://info.pitt.edu/~medart/image/england/england1/chichester/m0046chi.jpg
>
>and the one from yesteryear at:
>
>http://www.taiga.ca/~gallery/subpages/stewart/mystery/rotunda.jpg
>
>I'd say that they are the same structure.
>
>Now for Poultry Cross in Salisbury. My mother-in-law lives a few miles south
>of there so if you need to know more info please let me know!
>
>jh
>
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