page_title: Ludgershall, Wiltshire
section_title: Cross
hierarchical_section_title: Ludgershall, Wiltshire / Buildings and structures / Cross
caption_attribution_description: Ludgershall Cross.
context_page_description: Ludgershall is a town and civil parish 16 miles north east of Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. It is on the A342 road between Devizes and Andover. The parish includes the Faberstown housing estate which is contiguous with Ludgershall, and the hamlet of Biddesden which is 1.5 miles to the east on the border with Hampshire.
context_section_description: The remains of a Medieval preaching cross known as Ludgershall Cross are situated in the town centre. This is also under the care of English Heritage. It was re-erected some time in the early 19th century in the area that formed the old market place, near the present Queen's Head pub at the end of High Street. It is some 12 feet in height and in 1897, to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria, an ornamental iron fence was erected around the cross. The cross has carved representations on four sides but they are badly eroded. It is thought the original sculptured panels represented:
  North side – The Ascencion
  South side – The three Marys
  East side – The Crucifixion
  West side – Command to St Paul
  The railings were designed by A. H. Huth and bear a crown in each corner. A local Masonic lodge, The Border Lodge no.3129, consecrated in 1905 and meeting at the old Prince of Wales House hotel building, uses the preaching cross as its emblem.
caption: The preaching cross in Ludgershall
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