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Queen Eleanor Cross

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Queen Eleanor Cross
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Eleanor Cross: one of a series of twelve stone monuments topped with crosses erected between 1291 and about 1295 in England from Lincoln to Westminster. Ordered by Edward 1 in memory of his wife, Eleanor of Castile, who died in November 1290.
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