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Weekday Cross, in the
When the merchants established a Guild to regulate trade they erected a Nottingham Guild Hall on Weekday Cross. This building became the Court House and Town Hall when the borough had its own mayor and aldermen.
This site is now occupied by the Nottingham Contemporary art gallery.
High Pavement (2), Weekday Cross
remaining for over a century.
Weekday Cross, in the Lace Market
The Lace Market is a historic quarter-mile square area in the centre of Nottingham, England. It was once the centre of the world's lace industry and was an area of salesrooms and warehouses for storing, displaying and selling the lace. It is no ...
area of Nottingham, was the main market area in Nottingham
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. As the location of the town hall, Nottingham Guild Hall and main market, it was the centre of the town, before the market moved to the Old Market Square.
It was also known as Weekday Market.
The Cross
Across
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(probably not the first) was erected about 1529-1530. The Chamberlain's Accounts contain items of expenditure relating to the purchase of stone and sand and payment to John Mychyll for working the stone. There is also reference to the purchase of drink that was drunk at the cross on Corpus Christi. This may relate to a celebration to mark its completion.
About 1711 the "Cross" was familiarly known as "The Pillar." In 1736, the Crosses were cleaned at a cost of 1s 4d This cross was pulled down in 1804, the Corporation of Nottingham recording:
A new Cross was erected in the late 1993 by Nottingham Civic Society
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.
The site
The market
The Monday market was for fresh vegetables and butter. Later it moved from Weekday Cross to the 'Monday Cross', now near St. Peter's Square. A market was held on Wednesdays and Fridays. It was possible to buy butter, eggs, pigeon, wild fowl, fruit and fish.The Guildhall
When the merchants established a Guild to regulate trade they erected a Nottingham Guild Hall on Weekday Cross. This building became the Court House and Town Hall when the borough had its own mayor and aldermen.
This site is now occupied by the Nottingham Contemporary art gallery.
Nottingham Bluecoat School
In 1723, land was given by William Thorpe onHigh Pavement
High Pavement is a street in the Lace Market district of the city of Nottingham in Nottinghamshire, England. It is one of the earliest streets in the city, and many of its buildings are listed. It runs east from the Weekday Cross to the east ...
in Weekday Cross was used and the Nottingham Bluecoat School migrated there,Nottinghamshire History, An Itinerary of NottinghamHigh Pavement (2), Weekday Cross
remaining for over a century.
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Nottingham ( , East Midlands English, locally ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England. It is located south-east of Sheffield and nor ...