Volume I: County Durham and Northumberland
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Current Display: Sockburn 09, Durham
Overview
Object type: Lower part of cross-shaft [1]
Measurements: H. 77.5 cm (30.5 in)W. 21.5 > 20.25 cm (8.5 > 8 in); D. 45.75 > 35.5 cm (18 > 14 in)
Stone type: Medium-grained yellow sandstone
Plate numbers in printed volume: Pl. 137.737-740
Corpus volume reference: Vol 1 p. 139
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Present Location
Conyers Chapel
Evidence for Discovery
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.
Church Dedication
All Saints
Present Condition
Broken and worn, and possibly incomplete
Description
The shaft is edged by a cable moulding and the broad faces have a thin inner roll moulding. All faces but one plain.
A (broad): Towards the top two punch-incised spirals, unequal in size and irregularly positioned, derive from vertical lines above.
Discussion
It is possible that this shaft is unfinished and that the spiral ornament was added later.
Date
Uncertain. Tenth to eleventh century(?)
References
Knowles 1896-1905b, 116, no. 9; Hodges 1905, 237
Endnotes
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.
