Abbot's Chair
The Abbot's Chair is the common name of a former monastic cross, the Charlesworth Cross, on the moors in northern Derbyshire. Only the socket remains of this cross.
The cross was erected as a boundary marker by the monks of Basingwerk Abbey in Flintshire, to denote the boundary of the Manor of Glossop, which had been granted to the Abbey by King Henry II. The Abbey gained a market charter for Glossop in 1290, and one for Charlesworth in 1328. In 1433 the monks leased all of Glossopdale to the Talbot family, later Earls of Shrewsbury.
The Abbot's Chair is to be found close to the town of Glossop in the Peak, on the so-called Monks Road,[1] near the entrance track to Taiga Farm. The monks used this route in order to reach Hayfield, Simmondley and other villages.
Location
- Location map: 53°24’34"N, 1°57’28"W
- Streetmap: SK029903
References
- ↑ T. Bulmer & Co (1895). History, Topography, and Directory of Derbyshire: Comprising Its History and Archaeology : a General View of Its Physical and Geological Features, with Separate Historical and Topographical Descriptions of Each Town, Parish, Manor, and Extra-parochial Liberty. Proprietors. p. 151. https://archive.org/details/historytopograp01cogoog.