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Object type: Part of round shaft or pillar
Measurements: H. 73.7 cm (29 in); Circumference 115.6 > 95.25 cm (45.5 > 37.5 in)
Stone type: Medium-grained, micaceous red sandstone (St Bees sandstone)
Plate numbers in printed volume: 653
Corpus volume reference: Vol 2 p. 168
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Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date).
Though the fragment could represent the remains of a round-shafted cross, it is more likely to have once been intended to form part of the elaborate twelfth-century building to which belong the west door and the St Michael tympanum.
