Memorial Type:

Memorial - Other

Does the monument still exist?

Yes

Installation Date:

Non-contemporary

Inscription:

None

Allegiance:

Lancastrian

Condition:

Average

Condition Description:

The area around the stone is overgrown and the stone itself is almost completely covered in moss growth.

Memorial Notes:

The Leper's Pot is a stone base, sometimes assumed to be the base of a medieval cross, that is associated with the death of John, Lord Clifford on the evening of 28 March 1461 near Dintingdale. The story first occurs in the chronicle of Edward Hall, published in 1548, and no fifteenth-century sources mention Lord Clifford's demise other than to say he was one of the Lancastrian lords killed in the fighting on 28 and 29 March 1461. Dintingdale is not mentioned in any fifteenth-century source. The provenance of the monument is unknown and it is first mentioned in the nineteenth century by Arthur Clifford in his 1817 history of the Clifford family. It is also known as Waynder Cross. It was moved ten metres south some thirty years ago to make way for an electricity sub station/grey cabinet. It is likely a medieval boundary marker and its association with the Battle of Towton is a recent invention.