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Drawings and Water Colours / WD1019

Market Cross, Barnard Castle

Artist/Maker: Richards, Frederick Charles [1878-1932]



1912-1930
Pencil on thin white F.J.Head sketchbook paper

230 x 228 mm.
Purchase: Peter Jones, Bury St Edmunds 2005
Funding support: MLA / V & A

The Market Cross or 'Butter Mart' was built by Thomas Breaks and given to the town in 1747. It has been used as a fire station, town hall, court house and 'lock up' and the floor area was used for the selling of produce and dairy goods. Two bullet holes in the weather vane on top of the Market Cross are reputed to have been the result of a shooting competition between a volunteer soldier and a local gamekeeper in 1804



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