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recognised. On another panel is Our Lord in Majesty seated on a 
Throne, while the west panel shows the Resurrection, with Mary 
Magdalene and the other Mary kneeling at each end of the tomb. 
Steps of Calvary much worn. On one side a piece is cut out, 
possibly for the purpose of the offertory, or a stoop. Design and 
execution doubtless belong to the early Italian school. 
The remains of an old Market Cross also preserved in church- 
yard, only the stump of a fine shaft remaining, showing three 
decorated niches, each containing same figures of Virgin and 
Child, but now very much defaced. 
BICKNOLLER.—Nothing particular about it. Old octagonal 
form, very fine tapering shaft ; iron rod at top originally held the 
head in position, which has disappeared. 
Wepmore.—Still called the “Royal Town,” on account of 
King Alfred’s connection with it. Two Crosses are here, one in 
the churchyard, and the other in a garden in the village street. 
That in Churchyard has a square tapering shaft, once 
ornamented by recessed canopied niches, now almost destroyed. 
Shaft surmounted by a modern ball instead of a cross. 
The Village Cross, known as Jeffery’s Cross, is in a garden 
facing a house, which is said to be where Judge Jeffreys stayed 
when on his notorious circuit. It may be the place, but is 
certainly not the house, which is a modern rgth Century house, 
with all the ugliness of the period. Tradition says the Judge 
hung a doctor on this Cross, for dressing the wounds of a Puritan 
rebel, and that he was buried near it. It is one of the few 
Canopied Crosses which have escaped destruction, although the 
head is now much mutilated, and figures hardly recognisable. 
The sculptures on the sides of the head were :— 
E. Side. The Holy Rood, figures now headless. 
W. Side. Virgin and Child. 
N. Side. An Ecclesiastic in Vestments. 
S. Side. A Warrior in Armour. 
