3 August 2007
Some Words About Fake Eleanor Crosses
Posted by Alison under: Eleanor; History .
Yes, some do exist. Not in any malicious way you understand, call it Eleanor envy. There’s about 3 or 4 that I know about:
Ilham, Lancashire
Sledmere, Yorkshire
and Queensbury. Also, Charing Cross, outside the current Charing Cross Station in London. (If you’re ever travelling through, take a look.) There was a cross errected in Charing, but it was destroyed by the Parliamentarians, like many of Eleanor’s crosses. The current cross is a very beautiful Victorian imagining. It’s in no way technically accurate.
I do own one old image of the cross at Sledmere, perhaps one day I’ll visit it too.
6 Comments so far...
jams o donnell Says:
4 August 2007 at 2:20 pm.
I pass th Charing Cross one quite frequently. It’s only in the last few years I have stopped and taken a proper look at it. It is beautiful. I never really gave much thought to its authenticity
Claire Says:
4 August 2007 at 10:12 pm.
You should run an Eleanor idol contest and get people to send in their best shots of an Eleanor 
Alison Says:
4 August 2007 at 10:29 pm.
I like it, but only in statue form, that would lower the entries Claire!
A lot of people miss it completely Jams! I’m glad you’ve seen her, I love it, just in a different way to the medieval ones.
Claire Says:
6 August 2007 at 9:41 pm.
It would not be fun for you to have to go through pictures of fat eleanors that cant sing
Alison Says:
6 August 2007 at 9:53 pm.
Well if they’re memorial Eleanors I’d have to kill them, so that could work. 
