A HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND 
‘ Taylor’s crosses.’ Mr. Calverley thought he found traces of a crucifix 
on the east side, but the stone is very weathered and thickly crusted with 
lichen. We can only mention it as a specimen of a round-shafted cross, 
without any attempt to date it. 
Going south along the coast, at Beckermet, in St. Bridget’s church- 
Back anp Epces oF THE Inscrisep Cross, St. Bripcet’s, BECcKERMET. 
yard, we find two round shafts—one the famous inscribed cross. Leaving 
the inscription for the present, let us look at the ornament, which has 
not commanded so much attention. It is a graceful development of 
spiral work, budding into trefoils, though not by any means resembling 
what we have seen of 
Anglian floral scrolls. It 
has more resemblance to 
a stone built into the 
south side of Haile church, 
distinctly a Cumbrian 
spiral work but suggest- 
ing leafage. As we have 
already seen, no distinct 
continuity can be traced 
between this style and 
Anglian examples, but the 
Cumbrian artist may have 
seen or heard of such and 
tried to make his spirals 
flowery. The St. Brid- 
: SE GO AY «get's inscribed cross is 
SprraL FracMment, Halte. — therefore connected on 
the one hand with the 
Cumbrian spiral school, while on the other it is connected with a new 
series. Near it is a similar pillar, comparatively slender and ornamented 
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