The Corpus: Darlington 5

Volume I: County Durham and Northumberland

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Current Display: Darlington 5, Durham

Overview

Object type: Slab [1]

Measurements: Unknown

Stone type: Red sandstone

Plate numbers in printed volume: Pl. 149.784-785

Corpus volume reference: Vol 1 p. 151

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Present Location

Formerly outside south wall of south transept, now apparently missing

Evidence for Discovery

Possibly referred to by Stuart (1867) as 'a cross slab', but illustration missing. If this is so, found at same time as nos. 2 and 3.

Church Dedication

St Cuthbert

Present Condition

Broken and worn

Description

A (broad): Cross, type E6, carved in low relief and enclosed in a narrow roll moulding. There is a dot in the centre of the head which is surrounded by a compass-drawn circle.

B and D (narrow): Broken off.

C (broad): Uncarved.

Discussion

Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date).

Possibly part of a dedication or `station' slab from a church. It belongs to a group of such slabs (see Dinsdale 9 and Aycliffe 17).

Date

Eleventh century(?)

References

?Stuart 1867, 42

Endnotes

1. The following are general references to the Darlington stones. Hodges 1894, 78, also refers to three monumental crosses in transept and more stones in wooden gallery inside tower. Three crosses with interlace=nos. 1-2 and (?) 3; (—) 1927-8b, 81; (—) 1951-6a, 212; Pevsner 1953, 71.