What is recorded here

Half-carved and abandoned outside St. Bride’s church in Oldcastle, the disc-headed cross still wears its short arms and unfinished boss like a gesture interrupted mid-thought. Its missing shaft top suggests the carver left before completion, perhaps frustrated or called away, leaving stone and intention tangled together. What remains is not failure but invitation: a reminder that making is not the same as finishing, and that even broken work can point toward clarity.

Outside the church of St. Bride in Oldcastle there is an unfinished disc-headed cross (H 0.5m; Wth 0.72m; T 0.14m) with the top part of the shaft missing, which probably led to the work being abandoned. The arms are short (L 0.1-0.14m; H c. 0.2m) and a large boss was being excavated on one face of the stone. The cross has a collar (Wth 0.4m; H 0.1m) and a shaft (dims 0.25m x 0.17m; visible H 0.36m) below. It may be 17th century in date. Compiled by Michael Moore Date of upload: 7 August, 2014

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