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preaching cross

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preaching cross
A cross erected in the immediate vicinity of a small chapel (on a highway or in an open place) to mark a place where monks or others could assemble for religious purposes. Also See weeping cross.


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It could be a piece taken from a graveyard, a cross known as a preaching cross, or a memorial in a chapel.
Make a detour to the churchyard, just down the main road, to see the preaching cross.
``And just outside the pub would once have stood the old Town Hall and a preaching cross.
 
 
 
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