2-699-021 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Demolition of Cheapside Cross', (1643), 1897. The Cheapside Cross in the City of London was one of the Eleanor crosses, a series of twelve stone monuments topped with tall crosses, erected between 1291 and 1294 by King Edward I in memory of his wife Eleanor of Castile. It was demolished in May 1643 on the orders of the 'Parliamentary Committee for the Demolition of Monuments of Superstition and Idolatry'. From Old and New London, Volume I, by Walter Thornbury. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris & Melbourne, 1897]