This is a recently completed piece for a Lutheran church. It's a 7 ft tall processional cross with a pair of matching 4 ft tall candle holders.
There are weighted boxes that will sit on each side of the Altar to hold the candles while the cross is positioned off to one side after the opening of the mass.
The wood is Mahogany with mortise and tenon joints holding the Maple ends. The three points of the ends represents the Trinity. Lutheran crosses in my experience don't have a corpus. Instead I carved the symbolic Lutheran Rose in the center of the cross.
The staff itself represents the four Evangelists with the four columns at each corner running the length of the staff. Same on the candle holders. The symbolism is that which you hold on to.
I didn't include photos of the candle holders but they duplicate the cross staff up to and including the moldings where the cross is attached but have a socket where the candles are inserted.
The finish is oil stain on the Mahogany with the Maple left natural sealed with Lacquer.