Saxon Cross, Bakewell (Detail)

Recent Photograph of Saxon Cross (Detail) (Bakewell)

This cross has long been of fascination to antiquarians, the earliest documented being Wliiam Bray, who produced three etchings of the cross in his “Sketch of a Tour into Derbyshire and Yorkshire” (1778)[1]

(Information provided by Rosemary Lockie)

Reference
[1] There is much more information, including an engraving from 1830, a stereogram from the 1850s and a drawing from 1877 in The Andrews Pages Picture Gallery: Derbyshire, by courtesy of Ann Andrews.


Image contributed by Pete Howard on 17th April 2005.
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