Distruzione di Cheapside Croce,maggio 1643, ordinato dal Comitato per la demolizione dei monumenti di superstizione e idolatria durante la Guerra Civile Inglese
1520 x 2069 px | 25,7 x 35 cm | 10,1 x 13,8 inches | 150dpi
Data acquisizione:
1889
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Illustration from The History Scrap Book published circa 1889 Info from wiki: The Cheapside Cross was demolished in May 1643 under an ordinance from the Parliamentary Committee for the Demolition of Monuments of Superstition and Idolatry, led by Sir Robert Harley. The cross was the third incarnation of the monument, which had been reconstructed and refurbished several times in the preceding three centuries, in which time it had enjoyed the protection of various monarchs and the Mayor and Corporation of London. Matters came to a head during the years running up to the English Civil War, when the cross was seen to encompass the doctrinal debates of the period. To puritanical reformers, it was identified with Dagon, the ancient god of the Philistines, and was seen as the embodiment of royal and Catholic tradition. At least one riot was fought in its shadow, as opponents of the cross descended upon it to pull it down, and supporters rallied to stop them. After Charles I had fled London to raise an army at the start of the Civil War, the destruction of the cross was almost the first order of business for Harley's commission. The downfall of the Cheapside Cross is an important episode of iconoclasm in English history. Two fragments of the original cross, displaying shields bearing the royal arms of England and of Castile and León, were recovered in 1838 during reconstruction of the sewer in Cheapside. They are now held by the Museum of London.[
