Identifier: victoriahistorycorn01page (find matches)
Title: The Victoria history of the county of Cornwall
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Page, William, 1861-1934
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: London : (A. Constable and Company)
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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s < X z Q < u Q<X u B!DS u Ed X ote. U 440 EARLY CHRISTIAN MONUMENTS The cross at St. Columb Major is a beautiful little specimen, although it now onlyretains about 6 inches of its shaft, and the back of the head is some what mutilated. The head of the cross at Prideaux Place, Padstow, is unique, for instead of the usual ring, the limbs of the cross are connected by four straight portions set diagonally. The Quethiock cross is a very fine one and the tallest of its kind in Cornwall, measuring 13 feet 4 inches in height from the base. Redgate No. 2, called by Borlase and other early writers * The Other Half Stone, stands close to the inscribed cross-base at Redgate; only one face is decorated, and has a long panel filled with an eight-cord plait broken at the top. St. Erth cross-shaft is mutilated and broken in two ; the upper portion appears to retain the remains of the head, as part of the figure of our Lord is carved thereon. During the restoration of Gwennap Church many years ag

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