Charing Cross once again. The original Charing Cross was one of the medieval Eleanor crosses (a series of twelve tall and lavishly decorated stone monuments topped with crosses erected in a line down part of the east of England. King Edward I had them built between 1291 and about 1295 in memory of his beloved wife Eleanor of Castile) that stood here in the heart of the hamlet of Charing, Westminster, from the 1290s until its destruction on the orders of Parliament in 1647. (previous | next | back to album | 2020:02:10 14:26:56 | 56% of an album)