Tyne and Wear HER(999): Jarrow, Anglo-Saxon cross-shaft - Details
999
S Tyneside
Jarrow, Anglo-Saxon cross-shaft
Jarrow
NZ36NW
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Cross
Early Medieval
Find
Part of a cross-shaft, now lost. Raine recorded two portions of cross with fretwork built into the north face of the tower in 1858 (sic). Bo. yle in 1885 said the two fragments were still in the north wallThe dimensions are given as 30.5 cm high x 25.5 cm wide. A drawing shows two registers of interlace enclosed in a moulding.
3387
6522
NZ33876522
<< HER 999 >> J. Raine, 1854, The Inventories...of Jarrow and Monkwearmouth... Surtees Society, XXIX, xxviii
W.H.D. Longstaffe, 1858, Durham before the Conquest, Proceedings of the Archaeological Institute Newcastle, 82
J. Stuart, 1867, Sculptured Stones of Scotland, II, 44, pl. lxxxii
J.R. Boyle, 1880, On the monastery and church of St. Paul, Jarrow, Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, X, 209
J.R. Boyle, 1892, The County of Durham, 587
R.J. Cramp, 1984, Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture, Vol. I, Part 1, p. 108, pl. 92 (491) (Jarrow 5)