There are reports of a Market Cross at Bourne, but nothing remains today
| Parish/District | Bourne/South Kesteven |
| Location | Bourne Market Place |
| Category | Market Cross (Lost cross) |
| National Grid Ref | c. TF 095 201 |
| Designation | N/A |
| Stone type | N/A |
| Refs | Davies, 1916, Lincs N & Q vol 14 |
| Visits | – |
The following note appeared in Lincs Notes and Queries: Bourne – Market Cross – This cross has disappeared altogether. Camden in his history, mentions – ”on the West side of the market stands the cross, with an elegantly formed octangular shaft, ten feet high, it is ascended by three steps,” and Mr. J. J. Davies in his Historic Bourne, tells us that not a stone or trace of this cross remains. but there is a tradition in the town that its destruction took place in the year 1863.
D S Davies also comments on the cross in LN&Q:
In “Hundred of Aveland” by J. Moore, p.6, there is this account of the Market Cross. “On the west side of the Market Place (Bourn) formerly stood the cross, the shaft of which was octangular, and elegantly formed, and stood upon a deep basement ascended by three steps. Gough says “the shaft was c.10 ft. in height, out of which grew an ash tree,” but both the shaft and tree are now removed (Camden’s Brit., vol. ii, p.353).
It appears that the same cross was worshipped “by ye parishens ther as crosses be commonly worshipped in other places” (Peaks MSS. entitled towns in Cesteven).
The cross lately destroyed was built with the ruins of the basement and placed on the east side of the Market Place, of this there now only remains a heap of loose stone and earth.”
