Stone Cross

In front of the Church of San Juan and the Hermitage, as if triangulating the space, we find this monument. Its parts seem to come from different times.

It stands on three reused square steps, where we can see several bowls. A cylindrical column rises above the base. After the collar, the capital, as an extension of the column, is cylindrical and decorated with Ionic volutes on its four sides.

The cross is of square section with lowered edges, and topped with the sign or titulus of INRI. Some transepts erected at the end of the Middle Ages already have cylindrical shafts, on quadrangular or circular tiers.

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Everything is made of granite, non-local stone, the monument stands on three reused square steps, where we can see several bowls. A cylindrical column is supported on the base. Above the collar, the capital, as an extension of the column, is cylindrical and decorated with Ionic volutes on its four sides.

The cross is of square section with lowered edges, and topped with the sign or titulus of INRI. Some transepts erected at the end of the Middle Ages already have cylindrical shafts, on quadrangular or circular tiers.

Occasionally the INRI cartouche is sculpted and other times classicist pedestals are erected, directly interpreted from the column feet that the Italian treatises represented in their engravings.

The most outstanding formal characteristic of those erected in the first half of the seventeenth century -as is the case of the transept in question- is the proportion of its arms, where the brevity of the vertical pole stands out, which, on occasions, is only enough to house a brief INRI.

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