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Object type: Lower part of cross-shaft and -base
Measurements:
Total height (minus base): 172 cm (67.7 in)
Shaft (upper): H. 90.5 cm (35.6 in); W. (max.) 35 cm (13.75 in); D. 26 cm (10.25 in)
Collar: H. 11 cm (4.3 in); Circumference 122.5 cm (48.25 in)
Shaft (lower): H. 64 cm (25.2 in); Circumference (max.) 119.5 cm (47 in)
Base: H. (incomplete): 43 cm (17 in); W. 112 cm (44 in); D. 76 cm (30 in)
Socket: Circumference 144 cm (56.7 in)
Stone type: Fine-grained red sandstone (St Bees sandstone)
Plate numbers in printed volume: 41, 47 - 51
Corpus volume reference: Vol 2 p. 56-57
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Round-shaft derivative, type g, with collar, type h. The single panels on all four faces of the rectangular part of the cross are bordered laterally by a roll moulding and each panel has a swag moulding at the bottom. The collar appears to be formed by three encircling mouldings, in which the outer ones are cabled. The socket is round and the base is plain.
A (west, broad): Traces of two parallel vertical rows of stopped-plait.
B (south, narrow): Two parallel vertical rows of three-strand plain stopped-plait with pellets.
C (east, broad): Two parallel vertical rows of irregular plain stopped-plait, possibly with single-branch spiral-scroll between the rows.
D (north, narrow): Traces of two vertical rows of (probably plain) stopped-plait.
Spiral-scroll school (Introduction, pp. 33–8). The use of three encircling mouldings around the cylinder is rare. Outside Cumbria it is only found in association with a swag at Stapleford, Nottinghamshire, and Gilling West, Yorkshire (Kendrick 1941b, pl. V; Collingwood 1907a, 323). It is probably therefore significant that the only other Northumbrian example is provided by the inscribed shaft (no. 1) standing alongside this monument in St Bridget's churchyard; in shape this is probably a direct copy of its elaborate Anglian companion, with the sculptor even attempting to imitate the cabled mouldings of his model. The arrangement of ornament in parallel vertical strips is a distinctive north-western feature in the Viking period and is particularly prominent in work of the spiral-scroll school (e.g. Aspatria 2–3; Dearham 2; Plumbland 1; St Bees 4; Unknown Provenance 1).
