The Corpus: Billingham 02

Volume I: County Durham and Northumberland

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Current Display: Billingham 02, Durham

Overview

Object type: Incomplete cross-shaft [1]

Measurements: (after Stuart 1867); H. 73.6 cm (29 in); W. 20.3 cm (8 in)

Stone type: Unobtainable

Plate numbers in printed volume: Pl. 16.73-74

Corpus volume reference: Vol 1 p. 48-49

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Present Location

In north wall of church tower, outside, c. 20 ft up western edge

Evidence for Discovery

First noted by Longstaffe (1858, 82) that carved stones built into walls of church tower. Most now very worn. Not all of those surviving drawn in Stuart (1867) and some which were drawn not now identifiable.

Church Dedication

St Cuthbert

Present Condition

Worn so as to be almost unintelligible

Description

Only one face is visible.

B (narrow): Stuart shows a broad outer and narrow inner moulding containing a step pattern 1 and three panels of closed circuit knots; (i), two closed circuit loops; (ii), two registers of half pattern A with bar terminals; (iii), a bar terminal and start of a half pattern similar to ii. The surviving surface is so weathered that it is impossible to check the drawing in detail. The present effect is very different from Stuart's depiction.

Discussion

Too worn for comment.

Date

Uncertain

References

Stuart 1867, 64, pl. cxi, 5; Allen and Browne 1885, 352; Gilbert 1946-50, 204; Morris 1976, 140

Endnotes

1. The following are general references to the Billingham stones: Longstaffe 1858, 82; Hodges 1887-8a, 126; Hodges 1923-4c, 280; Fisher 1962, 50; Taylor 1978, 747.