# Preaching cross

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thumb|260px|right|The Ruthwell Cross
A '''preaching cross''' is a [Christian cross](/source/Christian_cross) sometimes surmounting a [pulpit](/source/pulpit), which is erected outdoors to designate a [preaching](/source/preaching) place.<ref name="b465">{{cite web | title=Medieval Standing Crosses of Lincolnshire | website=Medieval Standing Crosses of Lincolnshire | date=2024-11-25 | url=https://lincscrosses.org.uk/types-of-cross/preaching-crosses/ | access-date=2025-10-14}}</ref>

In [Great Britain](/source/Great_Britain) and [Ireland](/source/Ireland), many free-standing upright crosses – or [high cross](/source/high_cross)es – were erected. Some of these crosses bear figurative or decorative carvings, or inscriptions in [runes](/source/runes). There are surviving free-standing crosses in [Cornwall](/source/Cornwall) and [Wales](/source/Wales), in the island of [Iona](/source/Iona) and in the [Hebrides](/source/Hebrides), as well as those in [Ireland](/source/Ireland). Other stone crosses are found in [Lancashire](/source/Lancashire), [Cumbria](/source/Cumbria) and the [Scottish Borders](/source/Scottish_Borders), some of these in the [Anglo-Saxon cross](/source/Anglo-Saxon_cross) making tradition, like the famous [Ruthwell Cross](/source/Ruthwell_Cross). Whether these were especially associated with preaching is uncertain.  Later [market cross](/source/market_cross)es were generally not, although all sorts of public announcements, no doubt sometimes including preaching, took place beside them.  {{Citation needed|date=July 2014}}

==See also==
*[Khatchkars](/source/Khatchkars)
*[Celtic knot](/source/Celtic_knot)
*[High cross](/source/High_cross)
*[Hill of Crosses](/source/Hill_of_Crosses)
*[Iconography](/source/Iconography)
*[Pulpit](/source/Pulpit)

==References==
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