The story of the crucifixion has inspired the imagination of artists for generations and in Ireland during the 18th century it found expression in wooden carved crosses. These 'penal' crosses take ...

The Isle of Man is home to over one hundred Viking Age carved crosses, showing creatures, people, symbols and names.The transition in the Viking world of Pagan beliefs to the final embrace of ...

Two Viking era stone grave markers thought to be 1,000 years old have been put on display in a church in the north of the ...

Khachkars reach 1.5 metres in height, and have an ornamentally carved cross in the middle, resting on the symbol of a sun or wheel of eternity, accompanied by vegetative-geometric motifs, carvings of ...

The story of the crucifixion has inspired the imagination of artists for generations and in Ireland during the 18th century it found expression in wooden carved crosses. These 'penal' crosses take ...

The carved monuments, known as the Manx crosses, were revealed when a storm knocked down part of the wall in St Patrick's Church in Jurby in early 2022. Thought to be from the ninth or tenth ...