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A buttercross, butter cross or butter market cross is a type of market cross associated with English market towns and dating from medieval times. The name originates from the fact that the crosses were located in market places , where people would gather to buy locally produced butter and other dairy products. [ 1 ]
Winchester's historic area represents a typical small, rural county seat; its commercial development is focused around the county courthouse and town square, while low- to moderate-density residential development can be found away from the commercial center. Development in the district began in the 1830s; by the 1870s, most of the significant ...
Buttercross Needle Michael Fairfax (b.1953) A contemporary narrow pyramidal obelisk on a geometric steel base. At night, fibre optic lights illuminate it through thin glass strips. It reflects the spire of nearby St Mary's Church and the roof of the Buttercross. Made in 2009 of stainless steel, glass & fibre optic lights. In the shape of an ...
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The Scott County Courthouse is a government building in Winchester, the county seat of Scott County, Illinois, United States. Completed in 1885, it is the third courthouse in the county's history. Scott County's first settlers arrived in 1820, one year after the Indians ceded the region to Americans.
Winchester is a city in and the county seat of Scott County, Illinois, United States. [3] The population was 1,593 at the 2010 census. Winchester is part of the Jacksonville Micropolitan Statistical Area .
The man, Aaron Brown, 23, of Winchester, Illinois, was arrested on Friday night at a Morgan Wallen concert at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, where two members of the Kansas City Chief's ...
The Buttercross in Ludlow, Shropshire, England, is a market hall dating from 1746. Such market halls, or crosses, may derive from the high crosses or free-standing stones of the Early Mediaeval period. In the Middle Ages they were often used as gathering points in the centres of communities, generally as venues for regular markets. Beneath the ...