Built into east wall of church porch, inside

First noted 1846(?) built in as lintel of entrance to clock-room tower

St Mary

Damaged and worn

A (broad): Surrounded by a roll moulding. On the upper part of the stone is a sunken panel containing a cross, type B8. The upper arm touches the moulding, and the lower arm has been changed to a stem which stands on the moulding.

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

This type of cross is more usually found on wall-slabs, where all four arms form a square. The adaptation of this to form a standing cross is rather uneasy.

Second half of eleventh century

Hodges 1905, 230

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.