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The Market Cross stands in the centre of the city of Chichester, at the intersection of the four principal streets North, East, West and South Streets. This view is taken from West Street.

It was built so that the poor people should have somewhere to sell their wares. An earlier wooden cross had been erected on the same site. The stone cross was repaired in 1746 and stands to this day.

Until the start of the nineteenth century the Cross was used as a market-place; but the increased population of the city requiring a more extensive area for that purpose, a large market-house was, about the year 1807, erected in the North-street.

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