Volume I: County Durham and Northumberland
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Current Display: Hart 03, Durham
Overview
Object type: Part of cross-shaft or side of cross-base [1]
Measurements: H. 41.5 cm (16.5 in); W. 37.5 cm (14.75 in)
Stone type: Hartlepool and Roker dolomite
Plate numbers in printed volume: Pl. 81.410
Corpus volume reference: Vol 1 p. 93-94
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Present Location
Built into west wall of nave, inside
Evidence for Discovery
First mentioned in 1892. Greenwell (1880-9c, lxxvi) records that shortly before May 1886 the vicar and two masons repaired church and removed plaster from walls. They found remains of pre-Conquest chancel arch, triangular opening from chancel to nave, and several pre-Conquest fragments. Only nos 10, 12 and 13 specified before Boyle (1892, 620) who only specifies one more, while adding that there were four or five fragments with interlace. Hodges (1894, 2) records six fragments with interlace but does not individually describe them until 1905.
Church Dedication
St Mary Magdalene
Present Condition
Worn (head of left-hand figure possibly recut)
Description
Only one face is visible.
A (broad): Edged by a wide outer and inner fine roll moulding are two figures. They are frontal, have round heads, square shoulders and crude drapery conveyed by vertical grooves. The figure on the right possibly holds a staff or cross.
Discussion
These crude figures are not closely similar to any other group. However, it may be that they are a flatter derivative of the Durham cross-head type, nos. 5-8.
Date
Eleventh century
References
Boyle 1892, 620; (—) 1893-4b, 176; Hodges 1905, 232; Hodgkin 1913, 150
Endnotes
1. The following are general references to the Hart stones: Greenwell 1880-9c, lxxvi; (—) 1887-8a, 16; Boyle 1892, 620; Hodges 1894, 2; Pevsner 1953, 158; Taylor 1978, 749.
