Editing Eleanor cross (section)

===Dunstable===
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Eleanor's bier spent the night of 11 December 1290 at [[Dunstable]], [[Bedfordshire]].<ref name="pow194"/><ref name="cock345"/> It rested first in the market place, before being carried into [[Dunstable Priory]] church, where the canons prayed in an overnight [[vigil]].<ref>Cockerill 2014, p. 347.</ref> The cross was built between 1291 and 1293 by John of Battle at a total recorded cost of over £100.<ref name="colv483"/> Some of the sculpture was supplied by Ralph of Chichester.<ref name="hun184">Hunter 1842, p. 184.</ref><ref name="gall73"/> It is thought to have been located in the middle of the town, probably in the market place, and was reported by [[William Camden]] as still standing in 1586.<ref>{{cite book |first=William |last=Camden |author-link=William Camden |title=Britannia |location=London |year=1607 |orig-year=1586 |page=286 |url=http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/cambrit/buckseng.html#beds6 }}</ref> It is said to have been demolished in 1643 by troops under the [[Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex|Earl of Essex]].<ref>Lovell 1892, p. 32.</ref> No part survives, although some of the foundations are reported to have been discovered during roadworks at the beginning of the 20th century.<ref>Galloway 1914, pp. 73–74.</ref><ref>Powrie 1990, pp. 135–36.</ref>

The Eleanor's Cross Shopping Precinct in High Street North contains a modern statue of Eleanor, erected in 1985.<ref>[http://www.galaxy.bedfordshire.gov.uk/webingres/bedfordshire/vlib/0.digitised_resources/dunstable_digitisation_history_eleanor_cross.htm Dunstable cross] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060715162236/http://www.galaxy.bedfordshire.gov.uk/webingres/bedfordshire/vlib/0.digitised_resources/dunstable_digitisation_history_eleanor_cross.htm |date=15 July 2006 }} on the Bedfordshire website.]</ref>