Benito Carbone went close early on for the visitors, heading a Steve Stone cross over the bar.

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The diocese said it was investigating how Robert Coles was able to carry on working at St Luke's, Stone Cross, in East Sussex, after he retired in 1997.

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In the courtyard, the stone St Patrick's cross replicates the worn original in the Rock of Cashel's 15th-century Hall of the Vicars Choral, which was built to house the cathedral's male choristers.

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The most you can expect by way of scene-setting here are occasional keen-eyed observations by Jesse Stone, the hero, of the women who cross his line of sight.

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The gold ring has an amethyst stone bearing a burning bush and St Andrew's cross with the motto "Nec Tamen Consumebatur".

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The stone is about 25cm in diameter and engraved with an early Christian cross.

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It was later found to fit exactly into a large rectangular stone with a worn hole which was located at the base of the Canna cross.

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Cross St Michan's Church immediately off your list: behind iron doors, a narrow stone staircase descends to its crypt where the ghoulish remains of up to 800-year-old bodies have been preserved by the dry air.

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