Irish Cross
Created by Earley and Powells (later Earley and Co.)
Date: 14 July 1868
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: religious and ritual equipment
Object type: cross
Material: stone - limestone - portland stone
Technique: carved
Description: Irish cross in Portland stone
Notes: Full page of costs,
including labour for masons and carvers £17 4s. 4d.
and details of materials used,
e.g. 54 ft of Portland Stone, at 2/6 per ft £6 15s. 0d.
fixings, carriage added,
total of £33 13s. 3d.
Sources
Earley and Company (Ecclesiastical Decorators) Documentation: Box 1 of 7 Earley and Company Documentation
Ledger ECD/7, p. 156
Citing this record
'Irish Cross', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/object.php?id=msib3_1214389731, accessed 26 Sep 2023]
