St. Mel's Crozier

[1] It consisted of a wooden core lined with metal sheet tubing decorated with silver, coral and glass, as well as three knopes and a ring towards its base.

St. Mel's Crozier is built from 14 separate metallic parts, with the wooden core lined with silver, gilding, glass and coral.

[2] The drop's metal casting is secondary (of a later date) and has an inset (cavity) to hold a reliquary box, which is now filled with a small block of wood.

[8] While well preserved (a number of the plates were damaged, and its last major cleaning and refurbishment was carried out between 1971–2)[5] and studied to that point, the crozier was "almost entirely destroyed" in 2009 when St Mel's Cathedral was decimated in a fire.

[1][9] In the aftermath, over 200 recovered objects, including stained glass windows by Harry Clarke and St. Mel's Crozier, were taken to the National Museum of Ireland for assessment and restoration, although such was the extent of devastation that many were "beyond help".