Volume I: County Durham and Northumberland
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Current Display: Hexham 25, Northumberland
Overview
Object type: Part of baluster impost or frieze [1]
Measurements: H. 14 cm (5.5 in); W. 26.7 cm (10.5 in); D. 13.5 cm (5.5 in)
Stone type: Coarse-grained reddish gritstone
Plate numbers in printed volume: Pl. 183.983-988
Corpus volume reference: Vol 1 p. 187
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Present Location
Monks' Dormitory, Durham cathedral, catalogue no. XIb
Evidence for Discovery
First mentioned in 1861. Found on site of destroyed nave of abbey
Church Dedication
St Andrew
Present Condition
Broken but unworn
Description
Only one long face is carved.
A (long): Surrounded by a flat-band moulding and decorated with two groups of three balusters of the same type as 23–4 and 26–7, separated by four straight horizontal `rails'.
B and C: Broken.
D and E: Smoothly dressed.
F: Rough.
Discussion
Date
Last quarter of seventh century
References
Longstaffe 1861, 153; Raine 1865, fig. on xxxiii; Hodges 1890, no. D15 or D17, p. 36; Haverfield and Greenwell 1899, no. Xlb, 66-8, fig. on 67; Hodges and Gibson 1919, fig. on 69; Collingwood 1925, 69, fig. 3C; Collingwood 1927, 27, fig. 33C; Rivoira 1933, 149, fig. 556; Taylor and Taylor 1961, 117; Taylor and Taylor 1966, 45; Cramp 1974, 117-18, 176, pl. 14B; Taylor 1978, 1058
Endnotes
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.
