Volume I: County Durham and Northumberland

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Current Display: Norton 01, Durham Forward button Back button
Overview
Present Location
Built into south jamb of chancel arch
Evidence for Discovery
First noticed in 1905
Church Dedication
St Mary
Present Condition
Worn in places
Description

Only one carved face is visible.

A (broad): Edged by wide flat-band mouldings and subdivided by a horizontal flat-band moulding to form two panels. (i) One complete register and the beginnings of another of spiralled pattern A in a grooved technique. (ii) The pattern with angular loops and loose spirals is not of a type that can be determined.

Discussion

This piece is very like Chester-le-Street 7; on both of them the carver had difficulty in effecting the joining of the elements.

Date
Tenth century
References
Hodges 1905, 234; Hodgkin 1913, 204; Fisher 1962, 102; Adcock 1974, 319, pl. 159A; Morris 1976, 144
Endnotes

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