Denbigh High Cross at Lenten Pool

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This is the present location of the nineteenth century replacement High Cross.
Denbigh High Cross originally stood where Crown Square meets the High Street. It was replaced by a modern cross in the mid 1840s and moved to the Royal Bowling Green in 1848 (see NPRN 32682). In 1983 the cross was moved once more to its current location near the end of Vale Street, some 60m east of its original position (see NPRN 23548). The modern cross was displaced by the War Memorial in 1923 (see NPRN 32718) and relocated to Lenten Pool, to preside over a roundabout.  The nineteenth-century cross has now moved again to the west of St. Mary's Church, and the War Memorial has itself been shifted to the side of Crown Square.
The cross consists of a tall, tapering octagonal shaft of tooled limestone, surmounted by a rectangular head topped by an iron cross, and set on a three step base. It once carried an elaborate arrangement of four lantern streetlights.

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Cadw Listed Building record

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