The Corpus: Norham 17

Volume I: County Durham and Northumberland

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Current Display: Norham 17, Northumberland

Overview

Object type: Part of slab or shaft

Measurements: H. 8.3 cm (3.25 in); W. 36.8 cm (14.5 in); D. 30.5 cm (12 in)

Stone type: Coarse-grained grey sandstone

Plate numbers in printed volume: Pl. 248.1372-1373

Corpus volume reference: Vol 1 p. 245

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Present Location

Showing in south, east and west faces of pillar. See no. 1.

Evidence for Discovery

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.

Church Dedication

St Cuthbert

Present Condition

Damaged

Description

Part of one face only shows traces of a flat-band moulding and what could be the edge of an interlace panel.

Discussion

Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date).

Its association with the other Anglo-Saxon fragments could mean that this piece is also of that date. However, not enough survives for any certain identification to be made.

Date

Uncertain

References

Unpublished

Endnotes

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