Showing in east and south 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

Fragmentary but unworn

One face only of this block survives.

A (broad): A cross, type E8, is surrounded by a heavy double roll moulding. The mouldings and the diameter of the cross were worked out by eye, rather than by compass. This has resulted in a cross with unequal arms and mouldings with apparently different centerings.

B (narrow): Broken off.

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

Such crosses seem to be associated with several pre-Conquest church sites in Northumbria (Introduction, p. 8) and are possibly liturgical `stations' or dedication crosses. The nearest in type to this one is Birtley 3.

Eleventh century

Unpublished

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