Built into niche in north wall of modern nave of abbey

Found in 1907 on site of canons' day room of medieval monastery

St Andrew

Damaged and worn. Only one side now fully visible because built into wall inside niche

Head, possibly type A9.

A (broad): The head is outlined by a flat-band moulding, which encloses irregular interlace and what could be an extended animal. Below, the surviving section of the shaft is edged by a flat-band moulding with an inner roll moulding, and the face is covered by an irregular and confused interlace, which finishes with a bar terminal and does seem to include in the third unit on the right a reptilian head with a round eye.

B (narrow): [2] Collingwood's drawing shows four and a half registers of closed circuit turned pattern D with a bar terminal. The base of the lower cross-arm has a small panel containing one register of closed circuit half pattern F with bar terminals.

C (broad): Built in.

D (narrow): Collingwood has five registers of closed circuit turned pattern D with a bar terminal. If his depiction of the base of the lower cross-arm is accurate, it had a panel containing a bungled version of the interlace in the corresponding panel of B.

Collingwood's drawing of face A (1925, fig. 16) is not entirely accurate. The animal in interlace which he saw on the cross-head is not clearly decipherable, nor does there seem to be a complete animal in the interlace – only a reptilian head. The combination of animals and interlace represents a different tradition from the earlier Hexham pieces, and seems, like no. 7, to be a product of the old Lindisfarne traditions as practised by the community of St Cuthbert (Introduction, p. 32; Cramp 1974, 137).

Tenth century

Hodges 1888, pl. 42H; Hodges 1890, no. A9, p. 24; Savage and Hodges 1907, 44, pl. 42; Hodges and Gibson 1919, 68; Collingwood 1925, 86-7, fig. 16; Collingwood 1927, 154-5, fig. 181; Fyson 1951-6, 242; Pevsner 1957, 176; Adcock 1974, 350-1, pl. 95C; Cramp 1974, 137, 173, pl. 24C

1. The following are general references to the Hexham stones: (—) 1855-7a, 45-6; Rowe 1877, 62-3; Allen 1889, 230; Bailey 1980, 79, 81, 83.
2. None of the ornament on the narrow sides is now easily visible but Collingwood's drawing was checked by Adcock (1974, 350 - 1).