The Corpus: Haughton-le-Skerne 07

Volume I: County Durham and Northumberland

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Current Display: Haughton-le-Skerne 07, Durham

Overview

Object type: Part of cross-shaft or –head [1]

Measurements: H. (max. ) 24.8 cm (9.75 in); W. (max.) 27.4 cm (10.75 in); D. Built in

Stone type: Coarse-grained, massive yellow sandstone

Plate numbers in printed volume: Pl. 86.453

Corpus volume reference: Vol 1 p. 103

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Present Location

Built into west wall of church porch, inside

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 worn

Description

Head, type B10. Only one face is visible.

A (broad): In the centre is a broken boss, of which the outline only survives. Around it is a tangle of flat strands.

Discussion

This piece is too fragmentary and crude to allow any certain ascription of date.

Date

Uncertain

References

Hodges 1905, 232; Hodgkin 1913, 157; Morris 1976, 143

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.