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The Fine Lady
Rings on her fingers, bells on her toes.
See it clearly
- What's there
- Victorian Gothic stone cross on a roundabout, with a bronze statue nearby
- Legend from
- Nursery rhyme (18th century)
- Tone
- Light-hearted
Rings on her fingers, bells on her toes. But who was the lady on the white horse?
'Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross, to see a fine lady upon a white horse; rings on her fingers and bells on her toes, she shall have music wherever she goes.' Everyone knows the rhyme, but no one knows who the lady was. The Banbury Museum suggests a few candidates. The cross that stands in the town today is not the one in the rhyme. It was put up in 1859 to mark the wedding of Queen Victoria's eldest daughter.