Volume I: County Durham and Northumberland

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Current Display: Hexham 30, Northumberland Forward button Back button
Overview
Present Location
Lost
Evidence for Discovery
Found in April 1907 on site of destroyed nave of abbey
Church Dedication
St Andrew
Present Condition
Unknown
Description

Part of two carved faces survived, edged with a wide outer rounded moulding and a fine inner roll moulding. One face had delicate interlace (alternating half pattern D with glides). The other face is not decipherable from the existing photographs.

Discussion

This type of interlace composition seems to be paralleled in a cruder form on impost 37, and is also very like the interlace on the chair in which St Matthew is seated in the Stockholm Codex Aureus, fol. 9v.

Date
Last quarter of seventh to first quarter of eighth century
References
Savage and Hodges 1907, 44, pl. 38; Collingwood 1925, 72, fig. 5R; Collingwood 1927, 28, fig. 35R; Adcock 1974, 80, pl. 10B; Cramp 1974, 124, 178, pl. 11E
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.

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