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

Unweathered but broken off at top

Type c, niche. The ridge and much of the heads of the end beasts are missing, although the muzzle and jowls of one (face A) is clear. Their fore legs only are shown. These have four toes and are extended away from the jowls to form the vertical edge of the central panels of the interlace.

A and C (long): The centre of each long face is filled with three panels of flat four-strand plain plait composed of broad flat strands. The panels are divided by a flat grooved moulding. Below the interlace panels is a small irregularly shaped niche.

This hogback is closely paralleled by Sockburn 18. This type (c, niche) is confined to Brompton, Dinsdale, Ingleby Arncliffe and Sockburn. The end beasts are large, roughly carved, and with a distinctive curve between head and fore leg.

Third quarter of tenth century

Knowles 1896-1905b, 118, no. 27; Hodges 1905, 237, pl. facing 240; Lang 1967, 137-8 et passim, pl. 43; Schmidt 1973, 71; Lang 1984, 164, no. 3

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.