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Corpus volume reference: Vol 9 p. 153
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Appendix C item (lost stones for which no illustration has survived)
Pritt (1891–2, 17) prints an Account of Wallasey by Henry Robinson, who was school master in the town in 1720, which describes the so-called 'weeping cross'. This was defaced during the Civil War by soldiers using it as target practice, and afterwards broken into three pieces during 'King William's Wars by the Charles Gallies men'. Thomas Cotton then re-used the fragments as steps to a stile, hewing off 'all the curious cuttings that was on it' (ibid.).[1] An earlier place-name (Kirby in Whaley) and the circular nature of the churchyard in 1665 (Chitty 1978, fig. 5) both imply the existence of a pre-Norman church here.
[1] I am grateful to Peter France for his help in attempting to trace this stone.
