Acc.no: PEZPH : 1995.89ee
Identification
Item: Market Cross, St Buryan
Description: St Buryan Cross - height 2.26 m (7' 5"); height of cross 0.81 m (2' 8"); width of head 0.66 m (2' 2"); width of shaft 0.20 m 1'; thickness at bottom 0.25m (10"); thickness at top 0.20 m ( 8"). The cross, which faces East and West, consists of a fine, four-holed head in a good state of preservation. The shaft was probably originally much larger. The base is almost square and is built of roughly wrought granite. In 2013 the cross stands in the churchyard but this is a picture of it outside there on a raised stone platform. The face depicts a figure of Christ with outstretched arms to form a horizontal cross. The feet are turned out. The Reverend Croft suggests that the cross was adopted as the Deanery Market Cross when the parish was granted a charter for a market in 1302. In the background is the village inn with a stone trough to the left.
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