There are records of a market cross, now lost – Market Deeping (1) – described below, and also a surviving (boundary ?) cross described as Market Deeping (2), known as Towngate Cross

Parish/District | Market Deeping/South Kesteven |
Location | Lost cross – presumed located in centre of Market Place |
Category | Lost Cross (Market cross) |
National Grid Ref | TF 13905 09951 (estimated) |
Designation | – |
Stone Type | – |
Refs | Davies, 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.
