Cast Cross
Other parts of this grave monument featured in an earlier post; it appears to date from 1897, or earlier. It is cast from some kind of metal, and has wonderful details. While it may have been cast in Victoria, I suspect it was imported. How many others just like this there are around the world?
I am betting that this same monument shows up around the former British Empire, and that if you find the right cemetery in India, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa or England that you will find nearly identical casts. 
Other Ross Bay Cemetery posts can be found here.
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I will be quite busy the next few days, so if I am slow getting back to your comments that is why, with apologies.
Canon G15, 6.1 mm (=28mm full frame), ISO80, f1.8, 1/160th +/- E.V. 2.0.
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burnt embers 
Great detail work here, Ehpem!!
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Thank you Toad! These crosses are fascinating up close and in detail.
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What a classic piece of casting – I’m sure you are right, these motifs are well known ones and will have cropped up many times elsewhere. Well processed.
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Thanks Andy. Keep you eyes open in the cemeteries that you might visit, maybe you will see the foundry mate of this one!
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You might also enjoy the Jewish cemetary at the top of Fernwood road. I was thinking of you when I walked up there the other day, there is some intensely green moss on the walkway behind the from gate that looks like it would photograph really well. Love the texture in these.
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I really should go and look at that one, I don’t think I have ever been. Thanks for the tip!
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It’s amazing that the caster has managed to have such intricate and delicate detail in the stone work. There are probably not a lot of places capable of manufacturing these stones but it still could be a difficult to track them down for a research project.
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I think it would be a lot of walking in graveyards around the world. Or maybe the company records survive and exports could be documented and then looked for in a more targeted way.
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I bet you’re right. A good place to start would be Historic Guide to Ross Bay Cemetery, by John Adams, published by Sono Nis Press. I know that Victoria also had a steel or metal church that was shipped in pieces from England!
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Good idea, I really should get a copy of John’s book.
I can’t imagine shipping a whole church made from metal – I wonder what happened to it – probably melted down and made into lamp standards or something. The voyage from England probably started the rust before it was even erected.
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Come to think of it, it was called the Iron Church and it was made of cast iron, pre-fab, 1860s I think.
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