ORNAMENT ON THE EARLY GROSSES OF CORNWALL. 83 



Part IV. 

 SUBJECTS CONNECTED WITR THE CROSSES. 



FIGURE SCULPTURE.* —Plate 8. 



Many of the crosses in Ireland, as well as numbers of those 

 in other parts of Great Britain, are profusely decorated with 

 figure sculpture, such as human figures illustrating scenes from 

 the Bible, birds, beasts, fishes, &c. In Cornwall, however, the 

 examples in this style of ornament are extremely limited, and 

 with few exceptions are confined to a rudely executed represen- 

 tation of the Saviour's form, in shallow relief, rarely exceeding 

 a projection of 1J inches. His figure is not only posed in a 

 variety of different ways — but, as will be seen— the legs, or the 

 feet, are sometimes entirely omitted. 



I have, at present collected 37 examples of the Figure. The 

 following is a list of the places where they occur : 



Geographical description op the Crosses with the Figure 

 op otjr Lord Sculptured upon them. 1 

 (a.) On Wheel Crosses. Phillack — In churchyard (near 



Cam ioTh n a e n~? 2PendarVeS ' TreS " S> W-Scorrier (^grounds). 



Constantine-Trevease. S " Erth-Eolling Mill. 



Crowan (2)— Clowance, Praze- S " Feock-In churchyard. 



an-beeble. S - Just-in-Penwith-In Eec- 

 r, 1 , -,-> tory garden. 



Gulval — Jbiosemorran. QT t i. i, a 



b. .Levan — in churchyard. 



Gwmear-In churchyard. g> Michae p 8 Mount-West 

 Lelant — In cemetery (2). s ^ e 



Madron— In churchyard. Sennen— Trevilley. 



S. Buryan (3;— In churchtown, Stythians (2)— Pepper's Mill, 



Boskenna cross, and Tre- Trevalis. 



vorgance. Zennor — In Vicarage garden. 



1 Mr. J. T. Blight illustrates three examples which I have been iinable to find, 

 viz., Clowance, Stythians, and near Boskenna. 



2 The cross has lately disappeared. 



