The Corpus: Hart 05

Volume I: County Durham and Northumberland

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Current Display: Hart 05, Durham

Overview

Object type: Fragment of cross-shaft [1]

Measurements: H. 15 cm (5.9 in); W. 19 cm (7.5 in); D. 15 cm (5.9 in)

Stone type: Hartlepool and Roker dolomite

Plate numbers in printed volume: Pls. 80.406-407, 81.408-409

Corpus volume reference: Vol 1 p. 94

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Present Location

West end of nave, inside

Evidence for Discovery

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 in places

Description

A (broad): A fragment of interlace, perhaps bungled simple pattern E, with pointed loops framed by a double roll moulding.

B (narrow): Cut away.

C (broad): Interlace similar to A.

D (narrow): Part of a panel of double circles and opposed diagonals, with a bar terminal.

Discussion

The formula and cutting of this fragment is so like 4 that it is plausibly part of the same monument.

Date

Last quarter of ninth to first quarter of tenth century

References

Hodges 1905, 232; Adcock 1974, 316-18, pl. 156B-D

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.