It sits flat on the chancel floor, positioned to the east of the altar and slightly off-centre to the north, and because the pews have been placed directly on top of it, no one has been able to measure it, photograph its surface, or read whatever inscription or decoration it may carry. It is, in a quiet and rather literal sense, a buried object inside a building.

Holycross Abbey is a Cistercian monastery founded in the twelfth century, later famous as a repository for a relic of the True Cross, which drew considerable pilgrimage traffic throughout the medieval period. The abbey fell into ruin following the dissolution of the monasteries in the sixteenth century, but was partially restored to use over subsequent centuries and underwent a full restoration in the twentieth century, returning it to active parish use. It is that continued, living function of the building that has created the peculiar situation with this slab. A grave marker dating to the 1600s, likely commemorating someone of local significance, has simply been absorbed into the furniture arrangements of a working church. The slab predates the current configuration of the interior, but the interior has grown around it, and over it, in a way that makes ordinary documentation impossible.