Jarrow, Anglo-Saxon architectural sculpture
Jarrow, Anglo-Saxon architectural sculpture
HER Number
1213
District
S Tyneside
Site Name
Jarrow, Anglo-Saxon architectural sculpture
Place
Jarrow
Map Sheet
NZ36NW
Class
Unassigned
Site Type: Broad
Architectural Fragment
Site Type: Specific
Architectural Fragment
General Period
EARLY MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Early Medieval 410 to 1066
Form of Evidence
Find
Description
Incomplete architectural sculpture, 28 cm high x 38.8 cm wide, in medium-grained yellow sandstone. Damaged but unworn. Part of a frieze showing a plant scroll inhabited by men and a beast. Dated to the early 8th century and said to have been found in 1865 when the 18th century nave was demolished. Could originally have been part of the same scheme as HER ref. 1212.
Easting
433880
Northing
565220
Grid Reference
NZ433880565220
Sources
<< HER 1213 >> J. Stuart, 1867, Sculptured Stones of Scotland, II, 65, pl. cxvi.1
J.R. Boyle, 1880, On the monastery and church of St. Paul, Jarrow, Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, X, 209, pl. facing 210
J.F. Hodgson, 1898, The church of St. Andrew, Auckland... Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, XX, 36 and fig.
H.E. Savage, 1900, Jarrow church and monastery, Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, XXII, fig. on 47
C.C. Hodges in W. Page, ed. 1905, Anglo-Saxon remains, Victoria County History, Durham, I, 233, pl. facing 224
J.D. Rose, 1909, Jarrow Church and Monastery, 24
W.G. Collingwood, 1927, Northumbrian Crosses of the pre-Norman Age, 78-9, fig. 96
B. Colgrave & T. Romans, 1956, A Guide to St. Paul's Church, Jarrow, and its Monastic Buildings, 29
R.J. Cramp,1965, Early Northumbrian Sculpture, Jarrow Lecture, 10, pl. 9
R.J. Cramp, 1984, Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture, Vol. I, Part 1, p. 115, pl. 98 (525) (Jarrow 20)
J.R. Boyle, 1880, On the monastery and church of St. Paul, Jarrow, Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, X, 209, pl. facing 210
J.F. Hodgson, 1898, The church of St. Andrew, Auckland... Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, XX, 36 and fig.
H.E. Savage, 1900, Jarrow church and monastery, Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, XXII, fig. on 47
C.C. Hodges in W. Page, ed. 1905, Anglo-Saxon remains, Victoria County History, Durham, I, 233, pl. facing 224
J.D. Rose, 1909, Jarrow Church and Monastery, 24
W.G. Collingwood, 1927, Northumbrian Crosses of the pre-Norman Age, 78-9, fig. 96
B. Colgrave & T. Romans, 1956, A Guide to St. Paul's Church, Jarrow, and its Monastic Buildings, 29
R.J. Cramp,1965, Early Northumbrian Sculpture, Jarrow Lecture, 10, pl. 9
R.J. Cramp, 1984, Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture, Vol. I, Part 1, p. 115, pl. 98 (525) (Jarrow 20)