Originally set on the Chapel in the Barbican area,
later dedicated to St Anthony.
This cross dates from 1429.
Notes added above.
The Cross of St Raphael and St Gabriel
In 1860 it was recorded that the walls of St Anthony's Chapel were still standing c1765,
at the west side of Barbican Street, leading from the Quay to the battery;
the Chapel was demolished and a fish cellar built there.
On a bracket on the western wall of the chapel, a cross stood,
and was removed and used as a building stone ;
the cellar was later rebuilt in 1850, and Mr Rodd had the cross removed and placed in St Mary's churchyard.
The cellar can be seen on the 1842 Tithe Map, and so the site of the chapel is known.
Of Ludgvan granite, on one side a seated figure (the Holy Family), on the opposite, a crucifix.
In 1868 it was recorded that Bishop Lacy licensed another chapel in honour of Saints Gabriel and Raphael, on the 12th of August, 1429.
Very little is known of this chapel;
the remains of an ecclesiastical building, with the image of its patron saint cut in granite,
may be found near the end of Barbican Lane .
This was said to have been a chapel dedicated to S. Anthony.
So, it is clear that a chapel was built in 1429 to St Raphael and St Gabriel,
which later, because of the association for fishermen and seamen,
became later dedicated to St Anthony.
What is no longer to be seen, is the image of St Anthony.
There is sufficient identified stone used in The Gardens, to be certain of some features of the chapel.
A restoration on paper, is therefore possible.
It is difficult to determine the original appearance, but being set on a bracket,
each face could be seen, if it was set so the cross was at right angles with the gable wall.
Raymond Forward
