{On the flat front of the base:}
Of your charity pray for the soul of Augustine Charles Buckell, priest of S. Saviour's, 1898 - 1936, and first vicar of this parish.
{On the frieze of the base, extending on both sides, carved in Gothic script, with only the word on the front visible, Latin for 'priest':}
???? sacerdos ????
This cross must have been raised shortly after Buckell's death in 1936.
Site: Rev. A. C. Buckell cross (2 memorials)
W5, The Grove, St Saviour's Church House car park
This cross appears in the 1952 film The Last Page/Man Bait - we were pleased that confirmed our identification of this church. The scene begins at about 1 hour in: a character hides from the police in a bombed-out church. He enters from The Grove, through the archway at St Saviour's Church House, passes by this cross (without the surrounding plants but with a church apse behind to the left. He then enters through double doors and comes out in a roofless church. Later a woman meets him there and as they talk they move around and we get to see how a lot of the walls remain standing, but little else, until the last shot of the scene which shows some Gothic-style carving on the wall behind them.
See St Saviour's Church House foundation stone for information about the church.
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