Holy Cross Church, medieval gravestones

HER Number

12204

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Holy Cross Church, medieval gravestones

Place

Ryton

Map Sheet

NZ16SE

Class

Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad

Grave Marker

Site Type: Specific

Gravestone

General Period

MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Medieval 1066 to 1540

Form of Evidence

Structure

Description

In the churchyard there are two coped medieval grave stones of Frosterley Marble. They lie on the south side of the churchyard path around 30m east of the east end. In 1883 C.C. Hodges sketched these.

Easting

415150

Northing

564820

Grid Reference

NZ415150564820

Sources

Peter F. Ryder, 1985, The Medieval Cross Slab Grave Cover in County Durham, Architectural and Archaeological Society of Durham and Northumberland Research Report No. 1, p 110; D.A. Briggs and N.I. Dugdale, not dated, A Guide to Holy Cross Church, Ryton-on-Tyne, p. 44