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Old Cornish crosses (1896)

Langdon, Arthur G, Allen, J. Romilly (John Romilly), 1847-1907 · Truro: J. Pollard · leaf 233

An illustration from Old Cornish crosses, 1896, leaf 233
r the old vicarage, and corroborates the abovestatements. The cross is built into the boundary-wall ^ on the south side of thegarden, about three feet from the ground, so that the front only isvisible. It was evidently used as a mere building-stone in the con- This distance is as the crow flics ;… … UNORNAMENTED CROSSES 197 structlon of this wall, since the four holes are filled up with smallstones, bits of brick, and mortar. It is made of grey el van, ^ and is the smallest four-holed cross inCornwall. The shaft, of which only some three inches remain, haspart of a bead on the right edge, but…

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