Dated 1826, and restored in 1866, the work stood in Enfield Market Place, 1826–1904, and was then moved to its present position. It has a Gothic style stone cross on four buttressed piers, while the second stage has flying buttresses with crocketted finials. A self-described ‘self-taught’ painter, John Hill was a local Enfield carpenter and builder. On page 193 of Cuthbert Wilfred Whitaker's ‘An Illustrated Historical, Statistical & Topographical Account of the Urban District of Enfield’ (1911) the author describes John Hill as being the lessee who revived the Enfield Market in 1826. He writes that 'John Hill organised a public subscription from which a market cross was erected, in the Gothic style, above a canopy resting on four pillars.