Jarrow, Anglo-Saxon architectural sculpture

HER Number:
1213

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
Jarrow, Anglo-Saxon architectural sculpture

Place:
Jarrow

Map Sheet:
NZ36NW

Class:
Architecture

Site Type: Broad:
Architectural Fragment

Site Type: Specific:
Architectural Fragment

General Period:
Early Medieval

Specific Period:
C8

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:
3388

Northing:
6522

Grid Reference:
NZ33886522

Lats/Lons:

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)