Cross with a rectangular projecting base in two tiers, upright beam and arms finished off with capitals.
On the base, the first tier has plane faces adorned with volutes and vegetal elements. The second tier has convex, cambered sides, from which a Latin cross rises, with arms that end in Corinthian capitals. Relics are found in this section of the cross. All across the surface carved in the Mannerist style, there are wild animals, skulls, and bones, in rudimentary landscapes with mountains, houses and trees.
The upright beam is engraved with vegetal motifs, fruit, scrolls, arrows, veils, etc. A crown of thorns is located at the junction of the upright beam and the arms, on both sides of the cross.
The inventory of 1685 states that Frei António da Silva Teles offered his silver and money to the treasury of the Cathedral and that he also ordered the repair of a small cross entirely gilded that serves in the processions that has its relics¹. It is probably talking about this cross.

¹ A Sé do Funchal, Padre Manuel Juvenal Pita Ferreira, JGDAF, Funchal, 1963, p. 210.