The Corpus: Haughton-le-Skerne 04

Volume I: County Durham and Northumberland

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Current Display: Haughton-le-Skerne 04, Durham

Overview

Object type: Fragment of cross-shaft [1]

Measurements: H. 38.8 cm (15.25 in); W. (max.) 30.5 > 23.5 cm (12 > 9.25 in) (top broken); D. Built in

Stone type: Coarse grained, massive yellow sandstone

Plate numbers in printed volume: Pl. 86.452

Corpus volume reference: Vol 1 p. 102-103

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Present Location

Eastern 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 top of the shaft is enclosed by a punch-outlined grooved frame. The other grooved mouldings, which are also punch-outlined, taper inwards, following the outline of a shield-shaped motif. This is formed by four T-shapes which meet in the centre.

Discussion

This motif is no doubt derived from one such as that on Sockburn 8, where it served as the terminal for the decorated section of a shaft.

Date

Mid tenth to mid 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.