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- The Market Cross is an historic building in the heart of Bury St Edmunds. As the name implies, The Market Cross marks the site of a crucifix in the centre of the ancient market place which was erected between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries. Market crosses symbolised fairness with dealings in the market and were used for preaching and to make public announcements. In 1583 the cross was dismantled and replaced with an open wooden shelter for corn sellers. The building was described as a "very fayer large house for corn sellers wherein they may stand in their great ease very comodiouslye in the heat of somer and also in the tyme of reyne and cold wet winter". The building was burnt to the ground by a fire that destroyed most of Bury St Edmunds town centre in 1608. At the insistence of King James VI and I, the Corporation rebuilt The Market Cross, and by 1620 a large timber building had been completed. The new Market Cross consisted of an open corn-stead below, and a clothiers' hall on the first floor. During the 1600s part of the open ground floor of The Market Cross was leased as shops. By 1698 the gallery had a lanthorn or cupola on top of it. This was one of three in the town, the only one remaining today being that on Cupola House, a restaurant in The Traverse, which is the adjacent street. Markets have been held in Bury St Edmunds for more than a thousand years and still thrive today, with markets on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Even today, the street names recall their history (for example Butter Market and Hatter Street) describing the goods traded there - beasts, butter, corn, wool and fish. The Market Cross has had a wide range of uses over the past four hundred years from a theatre and dancehall to a badminton court, and a contemporary art gallery. (en)
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- The Market Cross is an historic building in the heart of Bury St Edmunds. As the name implies, The Market Cross marks the site of a crucifix in the centre of the ancient market place which was erected between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries. Markets have been held in Bury St Edmunds for more than a thousand years and still thrive today, with markets on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Even today, the street names recall their history (for example Butter Market and Hatter Street) describing the goods traded there - beasts, butter, corn, wool and fish. (en)
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