What is recorded here

Wakeman’s 1839 drawing captures the lost High Island cross in a socketed base, its upper arm expanded to a peak while the lower shaft widened for the fitting. The broken base later found on the church altar may be the very stone depicted, displaced rather than destroyed. If so, the cross did not vanish but changed rooms, leaving behind a shape remembered through ink instead of stone.

This cross known only from Wakeman’s drawing of 1839 (Wakeman 1839a), which depicts it standing in an open-ended socketed base, is missing. It has been suggested that the broken cross-base (see GA021-026075-) that was previously placed on the altar in the church (GA021-026014-) is the base depicted (Fisher 2014, 214, no. 59, Fig. 7.10). The cruciform cross had slightly tapering side-arms and an expanded upper arm with a peaked top. The upper part of the shaft was straight but the lower part expanded to fill the socket. (White Marshall and Rourke 2000, 158, no. 34) Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 23 November 2015

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