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Title
Banbury Cross
Date
1859
Medium
limestone & bronze
Accession number
OX16_JR_S002
Work type
Cross
Work status
extant
Listing status
Grade II* (England and Wales)
Listing date
07/10/69
Access
at all times
Inscription description
on a bronze plaque under Queen Victoria: THIS CROSS / STANDS ON OR NEAR THE SITE / OF THE ORIGINAL CROSS / WHICH WAS DESTROYED A.D.1602. / IN A TIME OF RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE; on a bronze plaque under King Edward VII: THIS CROSS WAS ERECTED BY PUBLIC / SUBSCRIPTION IN THE YEAR 1859. / TO COMMEMORATE THE MARRIAGE OF / VICTORIA, PRINCESS ROYAL OF ENGLAND, / WITH FREDERICH, CROWN PRINCE OF PRUSSIA, / AFTERWARDS EMPEROR OF GERMANY.; on a bronze plaque under King George V: THE STATUES WERE ADDED TO THE / CROSS, IN COMPLETION OF THE / ORIGINAL DESIGN, IN THE YEAR 1914, / TO COMMEMORATE THE CORONATION / ON 22ND JUNE 1911, / OF H.M. KING GEORGE V.