The Corpus: Haughton-le-Skerne 13

Volume I: County Durham and Northumberland

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Current Display: Haughton-le-Skerne 13, Durham

Overview

Object type: Fragment of grave-marker [1]

Measurements: Unobtainable

Stone type: Medium-grained yellow sandstone

Plate numbers in printed volume: Pl. 88.464

Corpus volume reference: Vol 1 p. 104-105

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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

Only a fragment surviving

Description

Only one carved face is visible.

A (broad): One horizontal arm and part of the shaft of a cross survive in punch-outlined technique. The heat seems to be type B9. On the right the ground has been cu away to provide a rough relief loop.

Discussion

This piece, although slightly cruder than 11, could be a related monument (see Discussion under 11). The loop at the side may have been prompted by 10.

Date

Late eleventh century(?)

References

Unpublished

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.