Ryton cross

HER Number:
316

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Ryton cross

Place:
Ryton

Map Sheet:
NZ16SE

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Cross

Site Type: Specific:
Village Cross

General Period:
POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period:
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence:
Structure

Description:
There is supposed to have been a cross, perhaps originally a market cross, on Ryton village green before the erection of a new one in 1795. The later stone cross seems to have been replaced by a modern pillar and cross in 1951. SCHEDULED ANCIENT MONUMENT AND LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
415190

Northing:
564700

Grid Reference:
NZ415190564700

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 316 >> Ordnance Survey archaeological record cards, ISS, 1978, Cross (1795 A.D.) N. Pevsner, rev. E. Williamson, 1983, Co. Durham, Buildings of England, p. 394