The Corpus: Haughton-le-Skerne 02

Volume I: County Durham and Northumberland

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Current Display: Haughton-le-Skerne 02, Durham

Overview

Object type: Part of shaft possibly expanding into head of cross [1]

Measurements: H. 48.3 cm (19 in); W. (at top-start of head) 21.6 < 22.9 cm (8.5 < 9 in); D. Built in

Stone type: Medium-grained, massive yellow sandstone

Plate numbers in printed volume: Pl. 86.451

Corpus volume reference: Vol 1 p. 102

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Present Location

Western niche in north wall of nave

Evidence for Discovery

Some of stones in nave taken from walls of chancel in enlargement and restoration of church in 1890. Hodges (1905, 232-3), who records their removal, also implies that some found already built into north wall of nave. No description of any stone earlier than 1905, so that only possible to say that all found reused as building stones.

Church Dedication

St Andrew

Present Condition

Broken and marred by reuse

Description

Only one carved face is visible.

?A (broad): The face is edged by a double grooved moulding. This encloses a panel of five-strand plain plait in the punched and grooved technique.

Discussion

This form of `waisted' shaft may be a very late form (see Cheadle, Cheshire: Collingwood 1927, fig. 221). However, the tight plait is more competently executed than on some of the other shafts from this site.

Date

Early eleventh century

References

Hodges 1905, 233; Hodgkin 1913, 157

Endnotes

1. The following are general references to the Haughton-le-Skerne stones: Longstaff 1858, 82; Hodgson 1862-8a, 146-7; Hodgson 1889-90; Hodges 1894, 78; Pevsner 1953, 164.