Weeping stone, Kirkby
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.
View a map of the area.