page_title: William Swinden Barber
section_title: Stainland Cross, 1875
hierarchical_section_title: William Swinden Barber / Independent works / Stainland Cross, 1875
caption_attribution_description: The Stainland Cross, a Grade II listed ancient monument, on Stainland Road, Calderdale. It was restored in 1875 by architect William Swinden Barber, who probably added the railings. The cross has now been removed to a position opposite Stainland Church, and it is now without its railings.
context_page_description: William Swinden Barber FRIBA, also W. S. Barber or W. Swinden Barber, was an English Gothic Revival and Arts and Crafts architect, specialising in modest but finely furnished Anglican churches. The Barber churches often had crenellated bell-towers. He was based in Brighouse and Halifax in the West Riding of Yorkshire. At least 15 surviving examples of his work are Grade II listed buildings including his 1875 design for the Victoria Cross at Akroydon. An 1864 portrait by David Wilkie Wynfield depicts him in Romantic garb, holding a flower. He served in the Artists Rifles regiment in the 1860s alongside Wynfield and other contemporary artists.
context_section_description: The Stainland Cross, on Stainland Road in Stainland, is a Grade II listed building. It represents a saltier or St Andrew's cross, carved on a block of stone. On 3 September 1875, The Building News published the following announcement: "The Stainland Board of Surveyors have given permission to have the ancient cross in Stainland restored according to plans by Mr Barber of Halifax." In the twentieth century the Cross was moved to a position opposite Stainland Church. The railings in old images of the Cross in its previous position, were probably added by Barber.
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caption: Stainland Cross before 1939
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