Hidden & found again - Lanteglos by Fowey Cornwall
In the churchyard is a beautifully preserved 14c cross with a lantern head on an octagonal shaft.   The lantern head is elaborately carved with figures set under canopies.   On one face is a Crucifixion scene, on either side are figures of saints, probably St Peter and St Paul , and on the other sits the Virgin &amp; Child.    The cross stands on a circular millwheel base. It was discovered buried in a trench at the west end of the church in 1838, presumably hidden during the religious turmoil of the Reformation.


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