The Corpus: Haughton-le-Skerne 14

Volume I: County Durham and Northumberland

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Current Display: Haughton-le-Skerne 14, Durham

Overview

Object type: Fragment possibly of side of cross-shaft or-head [1]

Measurements: H. 16.5 cm (6.5 in); W. 10.5 cm (4.1 in); D. Built in

Stone type: Coarse-grained, massive yellow sandstone

Plate numbers in printed volume: Pl. 88.465

Corpus volume reference: Vol 1 p. 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

Unworn; might be unfinished

Description

Only one carved face is visible. Set inside plain grooved mouldings is a plain panel with what seems to be one element of a straight line pattern at the bottom.

Discussion

Too little survives to be diagnostic, although straight line patterns are generally late.

Date

Eleventh century(?)

References

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.