Standing about 12 feet tall, The Cyclic Cross at Hendaye looms over the courtyard, an ambiguous apparition in the clear Basque sunlight. The monument is brown and discolored from its 300 plus years. The Cross will be completely eroded in a few more years. The images and the Latin inscription on the Cross have no more than a generation left before pollution wipes the images clean and the message disappears forever. The base of local sandstone sits on a broad but irregular three step platform, and is roughly cubic.
Close examination reveals that it is a little taller than it is wide.
The design on the south side of the pedestal. Rising from this is a fluted column, with a suggestion of Greek classicism, on top of which stands a very rudely done Greek cross with Latin inscriptions. Above the sunface on the western side can be seen a double X figure on the top portion of the cross. The top of the Hendaye Cross showing sun and moon. Coming from Canseliet's Master, this is striking enough to command attention.