stone cross
Cemetery religious monument
A stone cross is a freestanding cross carved from stone, typically erected as a religious monument, memorial, or boundary marker.
These range from simple roadside markers to elaborate Celtic high crosses with intricate carvings.
Many date to medieval times and serve as landmarks in churchyards, village centers, or along ancient routes: The stone cross in the market square has stood since the 12th century.
- CelticOf Irish-Welsh descent
- monumentStructure honoring someone remembered
- graveSerious and worrying
- burial groundLand for interring remains
- memorialThing preserving remembrance
churchyard · carved · ancient · weathered · granite · cemetery · marker · crucifix · standing · moss · lichen · pilgrimage · sacred · roadside · wayside · market square · village green · medieval
- stone monumentsobelisk, monolith, menhir, dolmen, stele
- village greenbandstand, benches, duck pond, flagpole, gazebo
- Anglo-SaxonsBeowulf, Mercia, Wessex, Northumbria, East Anglia
- grave markersheadstone, gravestone, tombstone, grave marker, footstone
- cemeteriescemetery, graves, grave, burial, headstones
- stone statuessphinx, marble bust, granite monument, Easter Island head
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