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sides are shown), is of the same width as the arm of the Eyam 

 Cross, and less stunted in its proportions, so that I think there 

 can be little doubt that this is a portion of the long-lost head of 

 the Bakewell Cross, for it seems to me most unlikely that there 

 ever were at Bakewell two large crosses of such magnificent 

 proportions as these. The arm in the Bakewell porch is not 

 ornamented with angels, as the Eyam Cross is so beautifully, but 

 with interlacing work ; it should be remarked that on the square 

 ends of the projections at the top of the Bakewell shaft there are 

 two angels like the Eyam angels, and a peculiar pattern like 

 those in a similar position at Eyam. If this identification of the 

 head of the cross be correct, we shall have a series of interesting 

 resemblances and differences between the two great crosses of 

 Derbyshire. One face of the Bakewell shaft, that shown on Plate 

 XII., is practically the same as the east face of the Eyam shaft, 

 though with those numerous and beautiful differences in detail 

 which show us how earnestly and thoroughly our early Christian 

 ancestors put their souls into their religious art-work The upper 

 part of the Eyam shaft is gone, so we cannot say whether there 

 was a pagan reminiscence there. The great difference between 

 the two monuments, that the Eyam shaft has both its edges and 

 more than half of one of its sides covered with interlacing work, 

 while the Bakewell cross has practically no work of the kind, will 

 disappear, if the head of the Bakewell cross was covered with 

 this work. The presence of angels, and of a special pattern on 

 the Bakewell shaft exactly resembling like ornamentation at 

 Eyam, has already been noticed. There remains the broad 

 difference, that while Eyam has no less than ten compartments of 

 the shaft and head filled with angels, Bakewell has no angels in 

 this position ; and while Bakewell has three large scenes from 

 Scripture, Eyam has none. The relations of the Bradbourne 

 shaft, and of that in the Weston Museum, which must certainly 

 be reckoned as a Derbyshire rather than a Yorkshire shaft — or 

 Mercian rather than Anglian— may be followed from the plates. 

 In the porch at Bakewell is a large square stone with angels 

 on its faces. One of these is shown in Plate XII. I 



