Showing in north and west faces of pillar. See no. 1.

Raine (1852) records that about eighteen fragments of sculpture found by Mr. Gilly in 1833 in investigating foundations of building in churchyard a few paces from east end of present church. Fragments built up into pillar by time of note in (-) 1869-79c, and possibly before Stuart (1867), whose plates show only faces now visible [1]. Pillar originally in churchyard: Allen and Browne 1885, 351; (-) 1889-90d, 243; Tomlinson 1891, 551. Removed indoors c. 1891: (-) 1891-2b, 49-54; Hodges 1893, 85. Very few fragments described before Stuart.

St Cuthbert

Worn

A (broad): The shaft is edged by a double roll moulding and divided by a single roll moulding into two panels. (i) Part of a panel of plain plait enclosed in a frame. (ii) Part of a draped figure with a halo, possibly holding a cross.

B (narrow): A panel edged by a double roll moulding contains a plant-scroll, in which the strands are interlaced and terminate in each border/corner in flowers or buds.

The panel of plain plait and the stiff frontal pose of the figure are reminiscent of Halton and Heysham, Lancashire (Collingwood 1927, figs. 89 and 92). The figure type is more developed than the rounded style of 4, but figures possibly of this type seem to be shown on the missing cross from Norham (no. 9a). The knotted plant-scroll with stiffly crossing stems is also found in the crosshead, no. 14. I have elsewhere linked the two pieces in one monument (Cramp 1978a, 12), but the differences in stone type seem to militate against this interpretation.

Last quarter of ninth century

Stuart 1867, 20-1, pl. xxvii, 9; Cramp 1978a, 12, pl. 1, 6

1. Those faces which are cemented into the pillar cannot be described but some descriptions can be based on earlier illustrations