Conyers Chapel

Church unroofed and abandoned in 1838. Before this, carved stones noticed built into walls (Surtees 1823, 249). After abandonment of church several references to carved stones lying either in church or in Sockburn Hall, but very few described until after Knowles's excavation and bringing together of all known fragments in re-roofed Conyers Chapel in 1900.

All Saints

All sides save one obliterated by reuse, and that worn

Only one carved face survives.

B (narrow): Part of a flat-band moulding frames the lower panel and divides it from the one above. (i) Part of a panel of plain plait with wide strands. (ii) An armed man facing left. He is standing grasping a long spear in both hands, its tip penetrating the upper frame. He wears a helmet with a pointed projection at the crown, carries a round shield over his left arm, and is dressed in a short tunic.

This figure of a standing armed man can be compared with others such as Staveley (Collingwood 1927, fig. 190), although the helmet type is different. The form of the round helmet with a point on the crest is paralleled at Brompton and Kirklevington (Bailey 1980, pls. 54, 57). The form of the helmet on Sockburn 7 seems to be more common. However, this one seems to be linked in style in the Sockburn series with 4 and 14.

Second quarter of tenth century

Knowles 1896-1905b, 115, no. 5, and fig.; Hodges 1905, 236; Hodgkin 1913, 230; Bailey 1978, 181, pl. 9, 7, fig. 9, 5; Bailey 1980, pl. 59; Roesdahl et al. 1981, 84, 92, no. F18

1. The following are general references to the Sockburn stones: Surtees 1823, 249; Longstaffe 1858, 82; (—) 1869-79f, liv; Allen and Browne 1885, 352; (—) 1887c; Eastwood 1887, 347; Allen 1889, 229; (—) 1889-90b, 132; (—) 1899-1900a, 60; (—) 1903, xiii; (—) 1909-10c, 239; Collingwood 1927, 148, 166, 169; (—) 1951-6a, 213; Pevsner 1953, 211; Lang 1972, 235-6; Schmidt 1973, 68-77; Morris 1976, 144; Bailey 1980, 91.