Used as part of stone seat on west side of church porch

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

St Mary

Very worn

A (top): Cross, type B6(?), in low relief enclosed in a shallow circular moulding. The stem is incised and surrounded by shallow diamonds (see no. 11).

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

Although the cross could be a pre-Conquest shape, the manner in which the circle develops into the diamond pattern could well be post-Conquest (see Bolam 2).

Second half of eleventh century

Boyle 1892, 670; Hodges 1894, 80-1; Hodges 1905, 231

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.