The Market Cross or Preaching Cross
Heritage Category: Scheduled Monument
List Entry Number: 1006994
Heritage Category: Listed Building Grade: II*
List Entry Number: 1312843
Date first listed: 10-Sep-1951
Date of most recent amendment: 11-Jul-1983
Statutory Address: Market Cross, Market Place, Lambourn
Outside the churchyard is a beautifully carved medieval preaching cross on a slender shaft, set upon a stepped plinth. This cross dates back to 1446, when Lambourn was granted the right to hold a market and is carved from Taynton Limestone sourced about 1 1⁄2 miles (2.4 km) northwest of Burford in West Oxfordshire. The cross was restored in the 19th century.
2021: The Market Cross stands to this day, possibly a little more weathered:
Lambourn Parish Council commissioned a survey of the structural state of the cross and it was certified as being of sound structure.
