Volume I: County Durham and Northumberland

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Current Display: Billingham 10, Durham Forward button Back button
Overview
Present Location
Built into centre of south face of church tower, outside, between 10 and 15 ft up
Evidence for Discovery
See no. 1. Not recognizable as any of the stones drawn in Stuart (1867)
Church Dedication
St Cuthbert
Present Condition
Very worn
Description

Only one carved face is visible. Framed in a flat-band moulding is a panel of indecipherable interlace.

Discussion

Too worn for comment.

Date
Uncertain
References
(—) 1889-90c; Boyle 1892, 631; Hodges 1905, 221; Hodgkin 1913, 57; ?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.

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