Volume 6: Northern Yorkshire

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Current Display: Kirkby Ravensworth 01, Yorkshire North Riding Forward button Back button
Overview
Present Location
Evidence for Discovery
Church Dedication
(St Peter and St Felix
Present Condition
Description

Fragment in exterior east wall of chancel, with panel of incised diminishing rectangles enclosing central saltire crosslet(s). Identified as 'one arm of an early cross-head' (Page, W. 1914); possibly part of Romanesque lintel (cf. Gethyn-Jones 1979, pl. 13d) or grave-marker.

Discussion

Appendix B item (stones wrongly associated with pre-Conquest period). [1]

Date
References
?(—) 1890–5b, xxvii; ?Speight 1897, 187; Page, W. 1914, 96
Endnotes

[1] All these entries are by D.C., except where noted.

[2] The village is known as Kirby Hill, but the parish name is used here to avoid confusion with Kirby Hill near Boroughbridge (see above, p. 129).


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