ABSTRACT
Prominent in the foreground of an English 'Catholic town in 1440', as envisaged by the nineteenth-century architect and polemicist Augustus Pugin, are two monumental crosses. One stands in a churchyard and the other, the 'Queen's Cross', an intricate architectural construction with statues in niches and crowned by a miniature steeple with the symbol of the cross on top, marks the w ay into the town (Figure 2.1). In Pugin's illustration of 'the same town in 1840', the crosses have disappeared.1
