The Buttercross, Witney
(1606-present)

place and market cross

Aged 418

Commemorated on 1 plaque

The Buttercross In 1606 Richard Ashcombe left £50 to build "a house over and above the cross." The clock was added in 1683 after a bequest from William Blake of Cogges. Tradition has it that a statue of the Virgin Mary stood on the central pillar.

Butter Cross, Witney, United Kingdom where it sited (1606)