Postcard of Market Deeping Market Place c.1905
Parish/DistrictMarket Deeping/South Kesteven
LocationLost cross – presumed located in centre of Market Place
CategoryLost Cross (Market cross)
National Grid RefTF 13905 09951 (estimated)
Designation
Stone Type
RefsDavies, D S,1913, Lincs N & Q, Vol XII No.5, pp. 129-150
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Market Deeping had a market grant from 1220 and a market charter from 1304 and, as the name implies, was a busy market centre until the latter half of the twentieth century.

Davies notes that: ‘…the Dean of Stamford points out that there was without doubt a Market Cross in the town, for it is mentioned in the survey, 1563, but all trace of it has vanished’.

This information is confirmed in a 1996 ‘Deepings Heritage’ booklet on the Market Place which adds that the 1563 survey includes the statement: ‘…. Also certain shops standing all of a row in the middle of the market Street near the Market Cross’.

The precise location of the cross is unknown, but the grouping of lamp standard and bollards in historic photographs does seem a likely spot.

Market Deeping Market Place – similar view to above, but perhaps 20 years later
Market Deeping (1) Market Cross

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