The Mary Watts-Russell Memorial Cross in Ilam Village, Peak District National Park, Staffordshire, England, UK
In a dominant position in the centre of the village of Ilam in the Peak District National Park in Staffordshire, is a striking and beautiful Victorian monument, in the style of an Eleanor Cross. It is modelled on one of the crosses which Edward I had erected at each stopping place of the body of his queen, Eleanor of Castile, on its progress from Nottinghamshire, where she died, to its tomb in Westminster Abbey, in 1290.
Size: 3712px × 5645px
Location: Ilam Cross, Ilam, Peak District National Park, Staffordshire, England, UK
Photo credit: © Robert Morris / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: 19th, attraction, blue, britain, british, buttress, carved, carving, century, cross, dead, death, decoration, decorative, derick, district, eleanor, england, english, gothic, heritage, historic, history, ilam, imp, jesse, john, macduff, mary, memorial, monument, national, nineteenth, park, peak, revival, richard, russell, sky, squire, stone, tourism, tourist, uk, victorian, watts, watts-russell, westmacott
