Ein frühes Kreuz für Predigt und Lehre aus dem 8. Jahrhundert in der Apsis der Ruthwell Parish Church, Dumfries and Galloway, Schottland, Großbritannien.
2706 x 3780 px | 22,9 x 32 cm | 9 x 12,6 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
22. Mai 1991
Ort:
Ruthwell Cross, Ruthwell Parish Church, Ruthwell, Annan, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
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An early C8th Anglian preaching & teaching cross placed in the sunken-floored apse of Ruthwell Parish Church, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK. Created around 730AD when SW Scotland was part of the Kingdom of Northumbria, it features carved scenes from the New Testament with Latin & runic inscriptions describing the panels. This W face (originally the N face) is carved with swirling Northumbrian vine scrolls with animals & birds eating grapes symbolising the Eucharist &/or Creation. The surrounding text in Anglo-Saxon (not Norse) runes is from The Dream of the Rood, an Old English poem describing the Crucifixion from the point of view of the Cross (Rood). The cross was broken up in 1642 in response to a Church of Scotland act against idolatrous monuments. Some sections were kept in the church as seats, others buried in the churchyard. In 1823 the Rev Henry Duncan reassembled the cross, had a local stone mason create replacement parts for those missing and re-erected the cross at the gateway to the manse. It was placed in the purpose-built church apse in 1887.
