Boyle Cross

 ( Market Crosses In England ) 

The Boyle Cross is a Grade II listed structure located in the town centre of Frome in Somerset, England.Lassman p.186 Directly across the road from the George Hotel, it functions as a market cross for the town. It was erected in 1871 and was designed by the Victoria era artist Eleanor Vere Boyle, the wife of Richard Boyle, a chaplain to Queen Victoria who was by then rector of the nearby village of Marston Bigot. He was a descendant of the Anglo-Irish Earls of Cork, long-standing landowners in the area. It was sculpted of Devon marble and weighs approximately a /ref> Catherine Hill begins a little to the west of the Boyle Cross.

Originally designed as a fountain supplied by a channel running down from a well at the Church of St John the Baptist, this function has been restored in recent years.

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