Laneast: the churchyard cross

The stone cross that stands in the churchyard was found in June 1954 while a grave was being dug, three feet below the surface. The suggestion is that it was dumped there when the church was rebuilt in 1437. The head of the cross and the upper section are original.   It was restored at t he De Lank Granite Quarry and set up in the churchyard close to where it was found. 

The head of the cross is plain with the limbs of the cross slightly raised in relief above the circle. There is a collar-like bead at the neck of the monument, a characteristic seen on only two other extant Cornish crosses, one in the churchyard at Michaelstow and one in the church at Lawhitton.  

For more information see 'Stone Crosses in North Cornwall' by Andrew Langdon published 1992 by the Federation of Old Cornwall Societies