A HISTORY OF CORNWALL 



features sufficiently similar to enable them to be placed in groups, and the 

 order in which they are taken is quite irrespective of their age. As a 

 matter of fact, the wheel crosses with little incised crosses on their heads 

 are probably the oldest. 



CLASS I. UNORNAMENTED CROSSES 

 i. UPRIGHT SLABS AND PILLARS WITH CROSSES IN RELIEF UPON THEM 



Crosses of this type are taken first as being the rudest and simplest. At the same time 

 attention should be called to the labour expended in sinking the whole surface of the stone 

 surrounding the cross. There are six examples of this type, 1 viz. : 



Burian, St. Tregurno Down, Trevorrian ; Camborne In the church ; Columb Minor, 

 St. Cross Close ; Sancreed Lower Drift (fig. 44) ; Sennen Escalls. 



The remainder are more or less similar to that illustrated, except in the case of Cross 

 Close, which is cylindrical. 



2. WHEEL CROSSES 



Wheel crosses, locally called ' round-headed crosses,' come next in order of development 

 and are met with in far greater numbers than any other kind. They have an approximately 

 circular head of a diameter greater than the width of the shaft, and are treated in every 

 conceivable manner, from those having simple crosses on their heads, to such ornate examples 

 as the North cross in Lanivet churchyard, that at Eastbourne, 2 Sussex, and elsewhere. 



(a) With equal-limbed crosses in relief upon the head 



Advent Tresinney ; Agnes, St. In churchyard ; Altarnun In churchyard ; In vicarage 

 garden ; Two gates ; Blisland In churchyard, Trewardale (2) ; Boconnoc In churchyard ; 

 Bodmin Berry Tower, Outside gaol, Over a well in a field, Callywith ; Breock, St. White 

 Cross ; Breward, St. Lanke (2), Penvorder ; Budock Nangitha ; Burian, St. Boskenna, in 

 a field ; Camborne In church wall ; Cardinham Treslay Down ; Constantine In church- 

 yard ; Egloshayle In churchyard (2) ; Ewe, St. Corran ; Forrabury Outside churchyard ; 

 Gluvias, St. Enys (fig. 46) ; Gunwalloe In churchyard (fig. 49) ; Gwinear In churchyard, 

 No. i ; Helston In churchyard ; Hilary, St. Trewhela Lane ; Ju/iot, St. In churchyard, 

 No. I; Kew, St. Polrode Mill (fig. 51); Lanivet Bodwannick, Fenton Pits, Ingonger, 

 Laninval (fig. 52), Tremoor Cross, Woodley Cross; Lanlivery Trethew ; Lanteglos by Camel- 

 ford In churchyard, No. I, Trewalder, Trevia, No. I ; Levan, St. On churchyard wall 

 (fig. 54), Rosepletha (fig. 45), Sawah ; Linkinhorne North Coombe ; Luxulian In churchyard, 

 (fig. 48), Lockingate, Methrose ; Mabyn, St. In churchyard, Colquite, Cross Hill ; Madron 

 Hea Moor, Trengwainton Cairn ; Mawgan in Pyder In churchyard ; Mawnan In church 

 wall ; Merther Tresillian ; Michaehtow Trevenning, No. I ; Minver, St. St. Enodoc ; 

 Roche In rectory garden ; Ruan Minor St. Rumon's Cross ; Sancreed On churchyard wall, 

 In churchyard wall, Anjarden ; Sennen On churchyard wall ; Stephen in Brannel, St. In 

 churchyard (fig. 53) ; Thomas the Apostle, St. In churchyard ; Trevalga In churchyard ; 

 Tywardreath Tregaminion, No. 1 ; Warbstow Lower Youlton ; Wenn, St. Cross and 

 Hand ; Winnow, St. Higher Coombe (fig. 50), Waterlake Cross ; Witbiel By roadside 

 (fig. 47), In rectory garden. 



b (i) With a central sinking at the intersection of the limbs on the cross head 

 Cubert, St. In churchyard ; Illogan In churchyard. 



b (2) With a central boss as last 

 Lelant In churchyard ; Tintagel Bossiney. 

 Plate No. VII gives some examples of wheel crosses. 



1 Except where otherwise stated all the illustrations of the crosses are drawn to \ inch scale, or 

 ^j actual scale. 



8 This cross was brought from St. Erth to Eastbourne in 1817. See Old Cornish Crosses, 

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