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| Keywords: road outdoor The market cross is 15th century, but the top fell off and was replaced with a copy in 1950. Very impressive & thirty feet high. "Legend has it that it was originally erected by Galfridius de Mervin as a thanksgiving for his miraculous recovery from wounds received in a battle with the Saracens in 1309..." www.dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/stalbridge2.htm : but the cross that survives today is believed to be late 15th century. "John Wesley says in his journal... that he preached at Stalbridge Cross [in 1766] and tells us his followers were pelted with mud and filth, though Wesley was unharmed." dorset-ancestors.com/?p=1434http://dorset-ancestors.com/?... In the background is the Swan pub. "Most of the buildings [on the east side of the High Street] have later frontages but have early Georgian or Tudor internal structures... The Swan has a large older stable block behind it (now a skittle alley) which once housed a forge, and there were pigsties, cart sheds, a coach house and stabling for 17 horses. This area with Gold Street was the hub of business and trade from Medieval times until late Georgian." www.stalbridge.info/uploads/3/1/5/8/31586035/stalbridge_h... The market cross is 15th century, but the top fell off and was replaced with a copy in 1950. Very impressive & thirty feet high. "Legend has it that it was originally erected by Galfridius de Mervin as a thanksgiving for his miraculous recovery from wounds received in a battle with the Saracens in 1309..." www.dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/stalbridge2.htm : but the cross that survives today is believed to be late 15th century. "John Wesley says in his journal... that he preached at Stalbridge Cross [in 1766] and tells us his followers were pelted with mud and filth, though Wesley was unharmed." dorset-ancestors.com/?p=1434http://dorset-ancestors.com/?... In the background is the Swan pub. "Most of the buildings [on the east side of the High Street] have later frontages but have early Georgian or Tudor internal structures... The Swan has a large older stable block behind it (now a skittle alley) which once housed a forge, and there were pigsties, cart sheds, a coach house and stabling for 17 horses. This area with Gold Street was the hub of business and trade from Medieval times until late Georgian." www.stalbridge.info/uploads/3/1/5/8/31586035/stalbridge_h... | ||||
