Monument record MCC86 - Market Cross, High Street, Colchester
Summary
Post Medieval, two storey market building with open ground floor and room above. Later used as a guard room.
Location
| Grid reference | TL 99602 25212 (point) |
|---|---|
| Map sheet | TL92NE |
| 1848 Parish | ST RUNWALD |
| Non Parish Area | COLCHESTER, COLCHESTER, ESSEX |
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Full Description
West of St Runwald's church, a market cross with an open ground floor and a room above replaced the medieval butter market or stall c.1590.<1> About 1590 a new fruit and poultry market with an open ground floor and covered upper storey was built in the middle of the High Street opposite the moot hall. It was known as the market cross by 1605 and the butter market by 1639. By 1803 this had been turned into a guard house, it was demolished in 1808.<1> The cross is shown on Speed's 1610 map.<2>
Sources/Archives (3)
- --- SCC19 Monograph: Cooper, Janet (Ed). 1994. Vol. IX, The Borough of Colchester, A History of the County of Essex. Volume IX. p.155.
- <1> SCC19 Monograph: Cooper, Janet (Ed). 1994. Vol. IX, The Borough of Colchester, A History of the County of Essex. Volume IX. p.104, pp.270-271.
- <2> SCC68 Cartographic materials: Speed, J. 1610. Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain.
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Record last edited
Oct 20 2016 10:09AM