Cross - High cross

The National Monuments Service's description

Location: Part of exhibition display, Visitor Centre (30 August 2005). Fig. 18 not lettered (second from left at top). Described by Leask (1950, 40) as a ‘cross and base, 3 feet 8 inches [1.11m] high. Head a complete, solid ring with short projecting arms, a circular band in shallow relief surrounding cross with curved, equal arms. The shaft is tapered with a slight entasis and is rebated shallowly at the edges. E of chancel (WI023-028001-). The cross is depicted in the figure as standing on a base with walling either side. The cross on display in the Visitor Centre does not include the base. The base appears to have been reused as the base for replica set outside the entrace to the Visitor Centre.

See attached screenshots of 3D model of high cross created by The Discovery Programme. 3D model can be accessed at the following website: https://skfb.ly/ALLx

Date of upload: 20 December 2012

See linked document with drawing of cross taken from Robert Cochrane Historical and Descriptive Notes with Ground Plans, Elevations, Sections and Details of the Ecclesiastical Remains at Glendalough, Co. Wicklow. Extract from the Eightieth Annual Report of the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland 1911-12. Dublin, 1925.

References

Leask, H.G. 1950 Glendalough, Co. Wicklow: national monuments vested in the Commissioners of Public Works. Dublin. Stationery Office.