Boyle Cross

The Boyle Cross is located in the town centre of Frome in Somerset, England.[1] 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 Victorian 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 descendent of the Anglo-Irish Earls of Cork, long-standing landowners in the area. It was sculpted of Devon marble and weighs approximately a ton. The land for the cross was donated by the Ninth Earl of Cork.[2] Catherine Hill begins a little to the west of the Boyle Cross.

The Boyle Cross in 2008. It has since been restored as a fountain.
The Cross and surrounding buildings in 2011.

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.

Rererences
  1. Lassman p.186
  2. https://www.discoverfrome.co.uk/attraction/market-place/

Bibliography
  • Lassman, David. Frome at War 1939–45. Pen and Sword Military, 2020.
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus. South and West Somerset. Yale University Press, 2001.
  • Pickering, Andrew & Kearley, Gary. Secret Frome. Amberley Publishing, 2019.


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