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Tullie House Museum : 1902.18.27
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Drawing, Spiral Shaft, cross shaft at St Mary and St Baga's Church, St Bees, Cumberland, by William Gershom Collingwood, 1899.
Sketch of the four sides of a cross shaft bearing carved decoration of debased plaiting, key pattern, scroll work and chain pattern respectively. The cross shaft dates from about AD 900.
Drawn to illustrate Notes on the Early Sculptured Crosses, Shrines and Monuments in the Present Diocese of Carlisle, by Rev William Slater Calverley, published by T Wilson, Kendal 1899; opposite p.260.
inscription:- inscribed bottom centre
St Bees, ['spiral' shaft]
inscription:- initialled & dated bottom right
W.G.C. 1899
wxh, image:- 222x171mm
wxh, sheet:- 23x18cm