The slab is incomplete, its base missing and a horizontal crack running across the stone above the cross-base, leaving a piece that measures just under a metre in length. Around the carved cross-shaft, Black Letter script, the angular Gothic lettering common to medieval ecclesiastical stonework, runs along both sides of the slab and continues in three further lines flanking the shaft itself. Nobody, it seems, can tell you what it says.

The decoration that survives is precise enough to read even if the words are not. The cross-shaft terminates in two cross-bands of unequal length, set above a pillar-base form, a carved support resembling a column's foot, giving the composition a formal, architectural quality typical of medieval funerary art. The Latin inscription was already being described as illegible by the early twentieth century, when Fitzgerald, writing between 1901 and 1903, noted its condition in what was then already an old stone. Maher, writing in 1997, recorded the decorative details that do remain visible. Between those two accounts, the stone seems to have yielded no further information about whose memory it was carved to preserve.