Identify this Celtic cross?

tv3tg4

Just wondering if anyone has information regarding this symbol?

It is probably a Celtic cross.

Peregrinus

It's a Saxon or Canterbury Cross. A Celtic cross has straight, or very slightly splayed, arms, not arms with a wide, curved splay like this. More to the point, the arms don't have curved ends suggesting of a circle; the cross involves an actual circle, and the arms pass through it, and have straight ends.

Jellybaby1

Or Knights of Malta?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_patt%C3%A9e

Peregrinus

Jellybaby1 wrote: »

Or Knights of Malta?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_patt%C3%A9e

Nope. The Maltese cross has eight points, two on each arm, formed by having a little triangular indent at the end of each arm. On the Saxon/Canterbury cross the arms bulge outwards, not inwards, and the bulge is curved, not straight.

tv3tg4

Many thanks. This cross is on my grandfather's headstone and I often wondered if it was Celtic.

Many thanks for all the information.

jdmurf

I think it is St. Cuthbert's cross......