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Oxfordshire: Banbury Cross (picture 1)
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The Cross that stands at the top of Banbury's High Street is not the one mentioned in the famous Ride-a-cockhorse nursery rhyme. That would have been one of the three medieval crosses that stood in the town. The High Cross stood somewhere in the Market Place and the Bread Cross near the top of present-day Butcher Row. Both were destroyed by Puritans on 26 July 1600. The Privy Council held an inquiry and ordered the culprits to rebuild them, but their command was ignored. The White Cross, on the edge of town in West Bar, was destroyed within a few years - it's not known how.