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Muiredach's High Cross, Monasterboice, 9th or 10th century A simpler example, Culdaff, County Donegal, Ireland. A high cross or standing cross (Irish: cros ard / ardchros, [1] Scottish Gaelic: crois àrd / àrd-chrois, Welsh: croes uchel / croes eglwysig) is a free-standing Christian cross made of stone and often richly decorated.
Pages in category "High crosses in Scotland" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Arthurlie Cross; C.
Kildalton Cross AD 800 Islay, Scotland. The Kildalton Cross is a monolithic high cross in Celtic cross form in the churchyard of the former parish church of Kildalton (from Scottish Gaelic Cill Daltain, "Church of the Foster Son" (i.e. St John the Evangelist) on the island of Islay in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland.
The Ruthwell Cross is a stone Anglo-Saxon cross probably dating from the 8th century, [1] when the village of Ruthwell, now in Scotland, was part of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Northumbria. It is the most famous and elaborate Anglo-Saxon monumental sculpture, [ 2 ] and possibly contains the oldest surviving text, predating any manuscripts ...
High crosses in Scotland (8 P) Pages in category "Monumental crosses in Scotland" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
Kilmory Knap Chapel is a 13th-century Christian chapel, located at the tiny hamlet of Kilmory, in Knapdale, Argyll and Bute, on the west coast of Scotland. Kilmory Knap Chapel is on Ellary Estate, next to Loch Sween, on the opposite shore to Keills Chapel. When the roof was lost the building was used as a burial enclosure.
Crosses with a ring representing the celestial sphere developed from the writings of the Church Fathers. The "cosmological cross" is an important motif in Coelius Sedulius's poem Carmen Paschale, known in Ireland by the seventh century. [4] It is not clear where the first high crosses originated.
Kildalton Cross: The finest intact high cross in Scotland carved in the late 8th century Kilmartin Glen: Achnabreck Cup And Ring Marks: The exposed crest of a rocky ridge with well-preserved cup and ring marks of early prehistoric date. Kilmartin Glen: Ballygowan Cup And Ring Marks: Cup and ring marks on natural rock faces, of early prehistoric ...