Monkwearmouth, Anglo-Saxon architectural feature
Monkwearmouth, Anglo-Saxon architectural feature
HER Number
412
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Monkwearmouth, Anglo-Saxon architectural feature
Place
Monkwearmouth
Map Sheet
NZ45NW
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Cross
Site Type: Specific
Carved Stone
General Period
EARLY MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Early Medieval 410 to 1066
Form of Evidence
Find
Description
An architectural fragment in local dolomite36.5 cm high x 30 cm wide x 15.5 cm deep. Contains a cross in high relief (identical with another at Monkwearmouth, built into the west gable of the tower) with arms tapering sharply towards a large round centre. The date of its discovery is unknown as is its date of origin, somewhere between the 7th century and 11th century A.D.
Easting
440200
Northing
557800
Grid Reference
NZ440200557800
Sources
<< HER 412 >> B. Colgrave, 1948, St. Peter's Church, Monkwearmouth, Transactions Architectural and Archaeological Society Durham and Northumberland,X (for 1944-53), 193
Illustration H.M. & J. Taylor, 1965, Anglo-Saxon Architecture I, fig. 204
R.J.Cramp, 1984, Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture, Vol. I, Pt 1 133-4, Pt 2 pl. 116.620 (Monkwearmouth 29)
Illustration H.M. & J. Taylor, 1965, Anglo-Saxon Architecture I, fig. 204
R.J.Cramp, 1984, Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture, Vol. I, Pt 1 133-4, Pt 2 pl. 116.620 (Monkwearmouth 29)