

Woburn - the Silent Cross
Woburn Cross is another of the “disappeared” crosses, and even less well documented than Stony Stratford. In fact it may win the prize...


The Stony Stratford Cross
After some rather long posts, we move into much sparser territory. The Stony Stratford Cross is the second of the “disappeared” Crosses,...


Hardingstone, the antiquarians' darling ...
From Geddington the funeral cortege followed a well worn path to Northampton. At the heart of Eleanor’s property empire, these two...


Geddington - the first surviving cross
From Stamford we finally come to one of the surviving crosses at Geddington. The first question which arises is: Why Geddington? These...


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...


Eleanor's viscera funeral in Lincoln Cathedral
(Lincoln Cathedral: Photo Tilman 2007) There is a gap in the records between Eleanor’s death until 4th December when the cortege is...


The start of Eleanor's final journey
Allowing for the fact that Eleanor had not died until the evening of 28 November, it was possibly not until 30th November that her body...