It was built in Decorated Gothic style on the site of an earlier Anglo-Saxon cross, to commemorate the granting of a charter by Edward III to make Bristol a county, separate from Somerset and Gloucestershire.
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The remaining statues were eventually installed in 1889, having been commissioned from a prolific craftsman of the region, Harry Hems.
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