Description

CONISTON
SD 39 NW
5/80 Memorial cross to
John Ruskin approx
23m east of
St Andrew's Church

II

Memorial in form of Anglo-celtic cross. 1901. By W.G. Collingwood, an expert
in ancient crosses. Slightly tapering rectangular shaft, cross head with swept
arms. Interlace scrollwork and symbolic panels. Memorial reads: "JOHN RUSKIN/
1819:1900". East face has, from bottom to top: youth playing lyre; inscription
with interlace above and below; youth sketching in Swiss Alps (representing
"Modern Painters"); St Mark's Lion (Stones of Venice); 7 branched candlestick
(Seven Lamps of Architecture). Cross head has interlace and hemisphere. South
face has scrollwork of dogrose with squirrel, kingfisher and wren. West face
has scene from parable of vineyard ("Unto This Last"); lilies and sesame seeds
("Sesame and Lilies"); crowned angel holding club, key and nail ("Fors
Clavigera"); olive wreath ("Crown of Wild Olive"); St George and dragon
(representing Guild of St George). North face has interlace panel. John Ruskin
was the foremost art critic of the Victorian age, and also wrote on social and
economic matters.

Listing NGR: SD3028097568

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26620317

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Recommended Books

• 
  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)