The Corpus: Hexham 26

Volume I: County Durham and Northumberland

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Current Display: Hexham 26, Northumberland

Overview

Object type: Part of baluster impost or frieze [1]

Measurements: H. 14 cm (5.5 in); W. 28.5 cm (11.25 in); D. 15.8 cm (6.25 in)

Stone type: Fine-grained, massive yellow/grey sandstone

Plate numbers in printed volume: Pl. 183.989-94

Corpus volume reference: Vol 1 p. 187-188

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Present Location

Monks' Dormitory, Durham cathedral, catalogue no. Xlc

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

One long face is carved and surrounded by a flat-band moulding.

A (long): The scheme is a variation of the `post and rail' type. On the left is part of a single baluster, and separating it from a group of three balusters of the same type as 23–5 are three horizontal rolls, grooved in herring-bone fashion. On the right of the triple balusters are three horizontal strips which are deeply grooved. The face is covered by a gesso finish.

B–D: Broken.

E: Roughly dressed.

F: Rough.

Discussion

See no. 27.

Date

Last quarter of seventh century

References

Longstaffe 1861, 153; Raine 1865, fig. on xxxiii; Hodges 1890, no. D16, p. 36; Haverfield and Greenwell 1899, no. Xlc, 67-8, fig. on 67; Hodges and Gibson 1919, fig. on 69; Brown 1925, 260, fig. 104; Collingwood 1925, 69, fig. 3D; Collingwood 1927, 27, fig. 33D; Rivoira 1933, 149, fig. 556; Taylor and Taylor 1961, 117; Taylor and Taylor 1965, 303; Taylor and Taylor 1966, 45; Cramp 1974, 117-18, 176, pl. 14C; 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.