The Corpus: Gainford 30

Volume I: County Durham and Northumberland

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Current Display: Gainford 30, Durham

Overview

Object type: Fragment [1]

Measurements: H. 28 cm (11 in); W. 23 cm (9 in); D. Built in

Stone type: Medium-grained yellow sandstone

Plate numbers in printed volume: Pl. 75.367

Corpus volume reference: Vol 1 p. 89

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Present Location

Built into base of east wall of Old Rectory garden

Evidence for Discovery

First mentioned by Hodges (1905)

Church Dedication

St Mary

Present Condition

Worn

Description

One register of what is probably closed circuit pattern F, with two strands which pass over a wide horizontal moulding and join another register of interlace which is now lost.

Discussion

This piece fits into the Gainford group; the pattern may be particularly compared with 2.

Date

Tenth century

References

Hodges 1905, 231; Morris 1976, 142

Endnotes

1. The following are general references to the Gainford stones: Greenwell 1880-9b, lxviii; Allen and Browne 1885, 352; (—) 1887-8b, 373. Brock 1888, 176, refers to stones in a graaden (later taken to Durham) and mentions illustrations by STuarts but does not describe them individually. (—) 1905-6b, 343-4, refers to discovery of stones in 1864-5 restoration, and there is also a reference to the finding in 1905 of another stone in the field west of the churchyard wall, and to the discovery of bones and a sword in the churchyard in 1889.