Monks' Dormitory, Durham cathedral, catalogue no. X

First mentioned in 1861. Found on site of destroyed nave of abbey

St Andrew

Broken but relatively unworn

A (broad): The top is surrounded by a wide flat-band moulding, the vertical edge with a cable moulding. The uppermost zone has two complete curlicues and part of a third. These spring from a plain roll moulding, and below is a double cable. The lower zone has three rows of deep counter-sunk chequers.

B (narrow): The uppermost zone has one complete curlicue and part of another springing from a plain roll moulding, then a single cable and two zones of circles divided by plain roll mouldings.

C (broad) and D (narrow): Broken away.

Although there is a possibility that this is a Roman piece (see 31), the idiosyncratic scheme implies that it is Saxon. It is noteworthy that this is the only example in the north of this type of impost, all the rest being of the slab type (e.g. Hexham 28).

Last quarter of seventh to first half of eighth century

Longstaffe 1861, 153; Raine 1865, xxxiii, no. 2; Stuart 1867, 47-50, pl. xciv, 1; Hodges 1890, no. D13; Haverfield and Greenwell 1899, no. X, 65-6, fig. on 65; Brown 1921, 171, fig. 13, 2; Collingwood 1925, 70, fig. 4C-D; Collingwood 1927, 28, fig. 34C-D; Clapham 1930, 131; Talbot Rice 1952, 136; Taylor and Taylor 1961, 117-18; Taylor and Taylor 1965, 303; Taylor and Taylor 1966, 45-6; Cramp 1967a, 23, no. 43; Cramp 1974, 122, 176-7, pl. 12C-D

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.