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<< Our Photo Pages >> Whitby Cross - Ancient Cross in England in Yorkshire (North)

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Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: Whitby Cross Alternative Name: Abbey Cross (Whitby); Whitby Abbey Cross
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 83.002 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Yorkshire (North) Type: Ancient Cross
Nearest Town: Whitby
Map Ref: NZ90231129
Latitude: 54.488934N  Longitude: 0.608618W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Whitby Cross
Whitby Cross submitted by Jansold : Whitby Cross, adjacent to abbey car park (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Cross in Yorkshire (North)

Ancient cross near Whitby. It is under the shadow of the atmospheric abbey. The site is right next to the abbey entrance and the entrance to St Mary's Church graveyard. The base is the oldest part of the cross.

This cross is recorded as part of Historic England List ID 1017941, which gives the history of the Abbey, but says only this about the cross: "North of the church on Abbey Plain is a fourteenth century cross on a plinth of six steps. Although the head is gone, the panelled shaft and capital are well-preserved". The Journal of Antiquities makes a brief mention of this cross right at the very end of their entry for Caedmon’s Cross, Whitby, North Yorkshire.
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Whitby Cross
Whitby Cross submitted by johndhunter : Abbey Cross – Located on what is known as the Abbey Plain.This was the site of the Abbey Cemetery, viewed looking north, January 2012 (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

Whitby Cross
Whitby Cross submitted by johndhunter : Abbey Cross – Located on what is known as the Abbey Plain.This was the site of the Abbey Cemetery, viewed looking towards the Abbey, January 2012 (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

Whitby Cross
Whitby Cross submitted by Sunny100 : Anglo Saxon baby's coffin in St Mary's Church at Whitby (close by the old cross). The little stone-carved coffin may date back to the time of the first abbey, founded by St Hilda, in the 7th century AD. Marks left by the stone carver can clearly be seen. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Whitby Cross by johndhunter on Friday, 18 January 2019
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Whitby Abbey Cross to give it its full name is usually just referred to as the Abbey Cross. It is a 14C churchyard cross located to the north of the abbey on what is known as the Abbey Plain, this was the site of the Abbey Cemetery. There is some speculation that it also acted as a Market Cross as markets were often held in churchyards in medieval times. However George Young writing in his History of Whitby in 1817 on pages 571 – 572 discounts this. Basically what he says, is that it would have been unlikely for the monks to degrade themselves by admitting markets into the cemetery of their Abbey as it was their policy to keep the people at a respectful distance. Also all the evidence shows that all the markets and fairs in Whitby were held in the lower part of the town not up near the Abbey.
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    Re: Whitby Cross by johndhunter on Sunday, 20 January 2019
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    Abbey Cross - Update to the above comment. The cross originally stood in the centre of the monks cemetery see HERE The southern edge of this cemetery by my guestimate would have been about 30 yards to the north of where it now stands on the Abbey plain which despite what its name suggests is just a small piece of ground to the north of the Abbey. It was moved here after the Dissolution and this is probably when the steps for its base were built. Also it is more than likely that markets were held here in later years, fairs certainly were. T.H.Woodwark in his 1934 book “The Crosses on the North Yorkshire Moors” page 17 himself writes about seeing wires coiled about it leading from a generator feeding a roundabout and washing lines being strung from it going to a caravan
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