Showing in east face 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

Broken and eroded

There is one visible face which at first sight looks as though it is composed of two separate fragments but seems on inspection to be one deeply cut stone between the interlace panel at the top and the deep double roll mouldings below.

The strands of the interlace are widely spaced and deeply cut in the manner of 12. Stuart shows the interlace as a separate fragment but it could all be part of a shaft with deeply indented `shoulders'. The interlace is too fragmentary to be assigned to a specific type.

Probably ninth century

Stuart 1867, 20-1, pl. xxviii, 14

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