Jarrow, Anglo-Saxon cross-shaft
Jarrow, Anglo-Saxon cross-shaft
HER Number
997
District
S Tyneside
Site Name
Jarrow, Anglo-Saxon cross-shaft
Place
Jarrow
Map Sheet
NZ36NW
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Religious House
Site Type: Specific
Cross
General Period
EARLY MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Early Medieval 410 to 1066
Form of Evidence
Find
Description
An incomplete cross-shaft, in 2 joining pieces, in medium-grained yellow sandstone. It has deteriorated considerably in the recent past, but a plaster cast in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland, Edinburgh, shows more detail. Decorative carving includes panels of interlace framed by double roll moulding. It was found built into the north wall of the 11th century tower at the time of the 1866 restoration, and was rebuilt into the inside of the east wall of the north porch of the church. It has been dated to the first half of 10th century.
Easting
433870
Northing
565220
Grid Reference
NZ433870565220
Sources
<< HER 997 >> J. Raine, 1854, The Inventories and Account Rolls of...Jarrow and Monkwearmouth...Surtees Society, 29, xxviii
J. Stuart, 1867, Sculptured Stones of Scotland, II, 44-5, 65, pl. cxvi.4
J.R. Boyle, 1880, On the monastery and church of St. Paul, Jarrow, Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, X, 209, pl. opp. 210
C.C. Hodges, 1893, The pre-Conquest churches of Northumbria, Reliquary, New series, VII, 156
H.E. Savage, 1900, Jarrow church and monastery, Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, XXII, 40, fig. on 46
C.C. Hodges, in W. Page, ed. 1905, Anglo-Saxon Remains, Victoria County History, Durham, I, 234
J.F. Hodgson, 1906, The churches of Escomb, Jarrow and Monkwearmouth, Transactions Architectectural & Archaeological Society of Durham and Northumberland, VI, pl. 12
J.D. Rose, 1909, Jarrow Church and Monastery, 24
G. Adcock, 1974, A study of the types of interlace on Northumbrian sculpture, Durham University Unpublished thesis, 294-300, pls. 140, 143 C-D
R.J. Cramp, 1984, Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture, Vol. I Part 1, pp. 107-08, pl. 91 (Jarrow 3)
J. Stuart, 1867, Sculptured Stones of Scotland, II, 44-5, 65, pl. cxvi.4
J.R. Boyle, 1880, On the monastery and church of St. Paul, Jarrow, Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, X, 209, pl. opp. 210
C.C. Hodges, 1893, The pre-Conquest churches of Northumbria, Reliquary, New series, VII, 156
H.E. Savage, 1900, Jarrow church and monastery, Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, XXII, 40, fig. on 46
C.C. Hodges, in W. Page, ed. 1905, Anglo-Saxon Remains, Victoria County History, Durham, I, 234
J.F. Hodgson, 1906, The churches of Escomb, Jarrow and Monkwearmouth, Transactions Architectectural & Archaeological Society of Durham and Northumberland, VI, pl. 12
J.D. Rose, 1909, Jarrow Church and Monastery, 24
G. Adcock, 1974, A study of the types of interlace on Northumbrian sculpture, Durham University Unpublished thesis, 294-300, pls. 140, 143 C-D
R.J. Cramp, 1984, Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture, Vol. I Part 1, pp. 107-08, pl. 91 (Jarrow 3)