"buttercross" meaning in English

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          "text": "Another interesting structure in the town centre is the Buttercross, with its pitched roof supported on six circular stone columns.",
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          "text": "Pontefract's wide, irregular Market Place, thronged every Wednesday, Friday and Saturday with market stalls, is dominated by its Buttercross, a sturdy structure consisting of a stone roof supported by stone columns built in 1734 to shelter dairy traders and still today offering protection from the sun and rain.",
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          "text": "Just north of the village is a buttercross, or town market meeting place.",
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        "A type of market cross associated with English market towns and dating from mediaeval times; fresh market produce was laid out and displayed on the circular stepped bases of the cross."
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