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Muiredach's High Cross, Monasterboice, 9th or 10th century A simpler example, Culdaff, County Donegal, Ireland. A high cross or standing cross (Irish: cros ard / ardchros, [1] Scottish Gaelic: crois àrd / àrd-chrois, Welsh: croes uchel / croes eglwysig) is a free-standing Christian cross made of stone and often richly decorated.
High Cross is the name given to the crossroads of the Roman roads of Watling Street (now the A5) and Fosse Way on the border between Leicestershire and Warwickshire, England.A naturally strategic high point, High Cross was "the central cross roads" of Anglo-Saxon and Roman Britain. [1]
Highcross Leicester is a shopping centre in Leicester, England. It was opened as The Shires in 1991 to supplement the Haymarket Shopping Centre , also since re-developed. It was built on a central location within the city centre on Eastgates and High Street.
The high cross is made of granite and was constructed in three sections; an upper, middle and base. [5] The cross is heavily decorated and depicts scenes from both the Old Testament and New Testament of the Bible, including Daniel in the lions' den, the three children in the fiery furnace and the miracle of the loaves and fishes. [3]
West-face of Muiredach's High Cross. Muiredach's High Cross is a high cross from the 10th or possibly 9th century, located at the ruined monastic site of Monasterboice, in County Louth, Ireland.
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The city centre was the High Cross, at the junction of the current High Street and Highcross Street (in mediaeval times, High Street ran between the north and south gates along the line of the current Highcross Street, while the current High Street was called Swinesmarket). Leicester Cathedral [2] and the Guildhall occupy this old area of town.
High Cross is a village in the civil parish of Thundridge, in the East Hertfordshire district, in Hertfordshire, England.It lies upon what was the A10, however the A10 Wadesmill by-pass has now been built around High Cross and neighbouring villages.