I was asked to design and cut this “town cross”
to commemorate the Millennium. Negotiations began in 1998,
so the twin processes of consultation and fundraising
were reasonably trouble-free. My first concern was to
make the image of the cross secular as well as sacred.
The splicing of the vertically aligned A D and the horizontal
2000 was the solution.The design of the rest of the images
followed from the request that scenes from the town’s
history should begin at ground level and proceed upwards
to the present millennium (hence the strange little Celtic
head at the bottom). Everything would have looked a bit
haphazard plonked on the flat face of the stone, so I
tied it all together with a background looking rather
like sand on a tidal beach: the Sands of Time!
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