Victorian Photograph of Waltham Cross & the Eleanor Cross 1 of only 3 remaining from the original 12

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From The Queen's London published 1897 Photographer uncredited. The only three crosses still standing are those at Geddington, Hardingstone, just outside Northampton, and this one at Waltham Cross. The Eleanor crosses were a series of twelve lavishly decorated stone monuments topped with tall crosses of which three survive nearly intact in a line down part of the east of England. King Edward I had the crosses erected between 1291 and 1294 in memory of his wife Eleanor of Castile, marking the nightly resting-places along the route taken when her body was transported to London.

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Size: 3176px × 2229px
Location: Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, UK
Photo credit: © Historical Images Archive / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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