Jarrow, Anglo-Saxon baluster frieze
Jarrow, Anglo-Saxon baluster frieze
HER Number
1219
District
S Tyneside
Site Name
Jarrow, Anglo-Saxon baluster frieze
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
Part of a baluster frieze, 22.2 cm high x 89.5 cm wide, in medium-grained yellow sandstone. Unworn, but broken at each end. At the top a plain band over a sharply cut groove above 22 tubular balusters, supported on a narrow flat-band moulding. Dated to the late 7th century-mid 8th century, and first mentioned in 1885.
Easting
433880
Northing
565220
Grid Reference
NZ433880565220
Sources
<< HER 1219 >> J.R. Boyle, 1880, On the monastery and church of St. Paul, Jarrow, Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, X, 210 and pl.
H.E.Savage, 1900, Jarrow church and monastery, Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, XXII, fig. on 47
J.D. Rose, 1909, Jarrow Church and Monastery, 24
G.B. Brown, 1925, Anglo-Saxon Architecture, The Arts in Early England, II, 260-1
E. Gilbert, 1956, The Anglian remains at Jarrow church,Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 5, I (for 1951-56), 314
B. Colgrave & T. Romans, 1956, A Guide to St. Paul's Church, Jarrow, and its Monastic Buildings, 27
R.J. Cramp,1965, Early Northumbrian Sculpture, Jarrow Lecture, 4
H.M. & J. Taylor, 1965, Anglo-Saxon Architecture, 348
R.J.Cramp in D.P. Kirby, ed. 1974, St. Wilfrid at Hexham, 118, pl. 8 C-D
R.J. Cramp, 1984, Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture, (Jarrow 25 a-c, 26) Vol. I, Part 1, pp. 118-19, pl. 101 (540), 102 (547-8)
H.E.Savage, 1900, Jarrow church and monastery, Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, XXII, fig. on 47
J.D. Rose, 1909, Jarrow Church and Monastery, 24
G.B. Brown, 1925, Anglo-Saxon Architecture, The Arts in Early England, II, 260-1
E. Gilbert, 1956, The Anglian remains at Jarrow church,Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 5, I (for 1951-56), 314
B. Colgrave & T. Romans, 1956, A Guide to St. Paul's Church, Jarrow, and its Monastic Buildings, 27
R.J. Cramp,1965, Early Northumbrian Sculpture, Jarrow Lecture, 4
H.M. & J. Taylor, 1965, Anglo-Saxon Architecture, 348
R.J.Cramp in D.P. Kirby, ed. 1974, St. Wilfrid at Hexham, 118, pl. 8 C-D
R.J. Cramp, 1984, Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture, (Jarrow 25 a-c, 26) Vol. I, Part 1, pp. 118-19, pl. 101 (540), 102 (547-8)