Showing in south, east 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

Broken but unworn

Block of stone with an incised and grooved curvilinear design on one face.

A: The outer incised design is pelta-like; the inner is formed from two lentoid carvings. It may have been part of a stele or a large building stone.

B: Roughly dressed.

D: Broken off.

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

No obvious parallels for this exist in Anglo-Saxon sculpture. It is possible that it is some sort of fertility symbol and could be either Roman, British or medieval.

Uncertain

Unpublished

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