 The design on the remains of the cross are similar to those on the Bewcastle Cross and it is thought that the Selsey cross would have been identical to the one at Bewcastle.Bishop William Reade, in his will dated 1382, requested that he should be buried before the high altar of the church at Selsey ... "once the cathedral church of my diocese".In another will dated 1545, Geoffrey Thomson, a Rector of Selsey, asked to be buried next to the palm cross in the churchyard.