There is no information as to the builder and designer of the cross at
Stamford. Richard Butcher, some time Town Clerk of Stamford, in a work
published in 1717, states as follows:—
“Not far from hence upon the North side of the Town near unto
York Highway, and about twelve score from the Town Gate, which
is called Clement Gate, stands an ancient cross of Free Stone of
a very curious Fabrick, having many ancient scutchions of arms
insculpted in the stone about it, as the Arms of Castile Leon
quartered, being the paternal coat of the King of Spain, and
divers other hatchments belonging to that Crown, which envious
Time hath so defaced, that only the Ruins appear to my eye, and
therefore not to be described by my Pen.”[45]
Footnote 45:
Butcher, Richard. London, 1717. “Survey and Antiquity of the Town of
Stamford.”