Cornovia - A Cornish Sourcebook



J T Blight - Ancient Crosses, and other Antiquities in the West of Cornwall, 1872


Market Place, Penzance


Height, 5 feet; breadth, 2 feet 3 inches.

Removed in the year 1829 from the centre of the market-place. Near the base, on the reverse side, the following inscription was then found:—"Hic procumbunt corpora piorum."


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Ancient Market Place Cross, Penzance, Cornwall by J T Blight, 1872