Boyle Cross

The Boyle Cross is a Grade II listed[1] structure located in the town centre of Frome in Somerset, England.

[2] Directly across the road from the George Hotel, it functions as a market cross for the town.

It was erected in 1871 and was designed by the Victorian artist Eleanor Vere Boyle, the wife of Richard Boyle, a chaplain to Queen Victoria who was by then rector of the nearby village of Marston Bigot.

He was a descendant of the Anglo-Irish Earls of Cork, long-standing landowners in the area.

Originally designed as a fountain supplied by a channel running down from a well at the Church of St John the Baptist, this function has been restored in recent years.

The Boyle Cross in 2008. It has since been restored as a fountain.
The Cross and surrounding buildings in 2011.