Whitburn Parish Church, effigy

HER Number

12211

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Whitburn Parish Church, effigy

Place

Whitburn

Map Sheet

NZ46SW

Class

Commemorative

Site Type: Broad

Commemorative Monument

Site Type: Specific

Effigy

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Stuart 1603 to 1714

Form of Evidence

Structure

Description

A recumbent effigy by William Smith of Michael Matthew of Cleadon who died in 1689. There is a skull placed between the feet and contemporary-costumed weepers.

Easting

440540

Northing

561670

Grid Reference

NZ440540561670

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 118; N. Pevsner revised by E. Williamson, 1996, The Buildings of England: County Durham, p. 503; H.C. Surtees, 1840, History of Durham, Vol. 4, p.51 (reprinted 1972); Tyne and Wear Museums, Draft South Tyneside Coastal Survey: Its Archaeological & Historical Record, p 54; J. Hutchinson, not dated, The Story of the Parish Church, Whitburn