Volume I: County Durham and Northumberland
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Current Display: Hexham 36, Northumberland
Overview
Object type: String-course or impost [1]
Measurements: H. 13 cm (5.4 in); W. 43 cm (16.9 in); D. Built in
Stone type: Coarse-grained, massive yellow sandstone
Plate numbers in printed volume: Pl. 185.1016
Corpus volume reference: Vol 1 p. 191
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Present Location
Built into west wall of modern nave of abbey, inside
Evidence for Discovery
Found during reconstruction of 1899-1908
Church Dedication
St Andrew
Present Condition
Incomplete and damaged but unworn
Description
Only one face survives.
A (long): A flat-band moulding encloses an interlace pattern in which three Carrick Bends (three registers of simple pattern F) are separated by irregular glides.
Discussion
Date
Second half of eighth to second half of ninth century
References
Savage and Hodges 1907, 41, pl. 40D; Hodges and Gibson 1919, 65; Collingwood 1925, 70, fig. 4H; Collingwood 1927, 28, fig. 34H; Quirk 1961, 31; Taylor and Taylor 1961, 117; Fisher 1962, 70; Taylor and Taylor 1965, 303; Taylor and Taylor 1966, 45; Adcock 1974, 138-9, pl. 40A-B; Cramp 1974, 120, 177, pl. 11C
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.
