“Mountsorrel’ by E W Hensman page 123 in ‘Memorials of old Leicestershire’, edited by Alice Dryden, Published 1911
At the junction of Watling Street* with the main road once stood a beautiful Gothic cross, with fluted shaft, surmounted by a canopied niche.
For the greater convenience of the butter-women this was removed in 1793 by Sir John Danvers, then lord of the manor, to his park at Swithland, and a shelter was erected in its place. The cross is carefully preserved, but the shelter, with its brick floor, Doric columns, and domed roof supporting an urn, is neglected, and yearly suffers more and more from natural decay and the mischief wrought by children and idlers.
*Nichols says, erroneously, ‘at the end of Barn Lane’.