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During the 1880s the arms of the cross were broken off and the Earl of Sefton, William Phillip Molyneaux, restored the cross re-erecting its broken shaft which he had re-shaped into an obelisk.

 A map of 1891 shows the cross to have been a typical ‘weeping cross' where mourners carrying coffins on their way to church would have set down their burdens and rested. The sandstone obelisk was discovered in June 1953 by excavators working on a new housing estate.

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