Edward VI Coronation procession passing Cheapside Cross in 1547

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Illustration from Old & New London published circa 1876. One of the twelve Eleanor crosses erected by Edward I in memory of his wife Eleanor of Castile, marking the nightly resting-places along the route taken when her body was transported to London. It was destroyed by Puritanical reformers at the start of the English Civil war in an act of iconoclasm by the Committee for the Demolition of Monuments of Superstition and Idolatry, led by Sir Robert Harley.

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Size: 3336px × 3288px
Location: London, England
Photo credit: © Historical Images Archive / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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