It is a graveslab, tapering from roughly half a metre wide at the head to just over thirty centimetres at the foot, and its surface carries an incised cross of considerable intricacy. The carving is not simply a cross but an exercise in controlled ornament, the kind of stonework that repays close attention once your eyes adjust to the shallow lines cut into the sandstone.

The church in which it rests was constructed in the nineteenth century on what had been the chancel of the medieval church of St Mary's, a thirteenth-century foundation. The slab itself is thought to date from the thirteenth or fourteenth century, which places it comfortably within the life of that earlier building. Its decorative scheme centres on an eight-armed floriated cross, meaning a cross whose terminals and arms are elaborated with floral forms, in this case fleurs-de-lys so rounded they verge on trefoils. The cross-head is interlaced, and the shaft below it is punctuated by knops, the term for the small boss-like swellings that interrupt a shaft, from which curving stems branch outward, each one finishing in another fleur-de-lys. A rectangular barred knop near the base of the shaft carries further floral sprays on either side. The overall effect is of a design that keeps generating new growth as the eye moves downward. The slab also has a moulded border, a double roll-moulding set on a chamfered edge around the upper face, which frames the composition and suggests a maker attentive to finish as well as iconography. Some cracking has developed across the surface on the right-hand side, with one fracture running beneath the knop on the cross-shaft, though the carving remains largely legible.