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Object type: Crosses and grave-cover
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Corpus volume reference: Vol 9 p. 151
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Appendix C item (lost stones for which no illustration has survived)
Smith (H. E. 1875, 93) noted: 'During recent restoration of Chester Cathedral an important angle of the superstructure was found based upon a number of beautifully carved Anglo-Saxon crosses, laid regularly side by side, and in all probability early abstracted from the adjoining burial ground of St Werburgh ... owing to the important position only one was raised: tombstone, 2 feet long and 13" broad, ... with a plain cross crudely cut on a circular recess'; the border was described as corded and the reverse 'similar'. The only stones now visible in the cathedral are all post-Conquest. For excavations at the cathedral revealing possible traces of a pre-Norman structure see (—) 1997.
