ORNAMENT ON THE EARLY CROSSES OF CORNWALL. 



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Cover for a well. Wheel cross. 



In field off Castle Bodmin. 

 Street.* 



Stand for sundial. Inscribed and 



ornamented Pendarves.* Camborne, 



altar slab. 



Incised cross slab. In porch.* Towednack. 



Cross. Rectory garden. L SS r(1 by 



A seat. 



For forming iron 

 wheel tires on 

 by blacksmiths. 



Adopted for boun- 

 dary stones of 

 parishes (and 

 duly beaten). 



Adopted for boun- 

 dary stones of 

 private prop- 

 erty (disfigured 

 by inital letters 

 of holders). 



Adopted for a 

 directing post. 



Adopted for bench 

 marks by ord- 

 nance surveyors. 



Broken up for road 

 metal. 



Four holed cross. Carminnow.* 

 Wheel cross. Callywith.* 



Camelford. 



Bodmin. 

 Carminnow. 



The " four-hole Temple Moor.* S. Neot. 



cross." 



Cross. Peverell's cross.* Blisland. 



Hewn pillar stone Bodilly. S. Wendron. 



A cross. Near Newquay,* between that place 



and Perranzabuloe. 



Many monuments are disfigured by the broad arrow, 

 as the " Four-hole cross," &c. 



There are several cases on record, in which crosses, 

 &c, have shared this fate. 



The foregoing list contains some magnificent monuments, 

 notably, Biscovey and Pendarves. The former possesses some 

 beautiful examples of knot work, and the latter has a key- 

 pattern border. 



The custom of removing the crosses, and erecting them in 

 private gardens, &c, cannot of course be recommended, though 

 it has been the means — to a great extent, of preserving some of 

 them. On the other hand, I think the churchyard is the place 

 for them, where they may be seen by all. In the case of sculp- 

 tured stones, however, they should be placed in the churches, as 

 is done at other places, and thereby be protected from the 

 weather. 



Generally reviewing the ornament on the crosses of 

 Cornwall, we cannot fail to be struck by three circumstances 

 connected with it. (1), The rudeness of its execution ; (2), the 

 great difference in the character of the work compared with that 



