The general organisation of the figures in the present relief accords with the standard iconography of such pieces around 1400, as exemplified by various examples in the Victoria and Albert Museum (Cheetham, loc. cit.). Three male figures, two of them identifiable as Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus, lower Christ's body from the t-shaped cross, while the Virgin and one of the Maries look on. On the other side of the cross is St John the Evangelist with his habitual attribute of a palm.
The embattled top of the panel is a characteristic element in the decorative vocabulary of reliefs of this period.