Short Guided Tour - 26
The cross was originally on the site of a now private house.
The preservation of the cross was directed by Thomas Brigg of Guard House in about 1930 and latterly re-erected in the new boundary wall.
It is presumably, the cross mentioned in a dead dated 1488 by which Henry Kighley, Knight, conveys to John Brigge, son of Richard Brigge and Henry Cockroft “all his claim to a certain parcel of land containing 24 acres between the town of Kyghlay on the east side and a certain cross called Laycock Cross on the west side”.
Further evidence shows that this cross was near its present position when Jeremy Brigg of Guard House bought, in 1718, the adjoining field where the Institute now stands.
The remains of the cross are in the wall near the Institute and were placed there in 1927 (see Ordnance Survey map). Originally the cross was integral with the wall, however, following an accident during which a lorry backed into the wall and dislodged some of the stonework, the cross was reinserted into the wall in a more elevated position.
Village Cross
