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Chorley - Cheapside - stone pillar erected 2002

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This stone pedestal was erected in 2002 as a marker to show the position of the former ancient ‘Weeping Cross’ which stood nearby. Funeral processions would halt here so that prayers might be said for the departed soul. It was last documented in 1835.

Baines, Lancs. (ed. 1836), iii, 418. The stones are sockets of crosses; the second is (or was) not at the lodge but at the corner of Gillibrand Walks; note by Mr. J. Wilson. It was a roadside or 'weeping' cross where funeral processions halted that prayers might be said for the departed soul.