Church of St. Peter, effigies of knights

HER Number

12202

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Church of St. Peter, effigies of knights

Place

Monkwearmouth

Map Sheet

NZ45NW

Class

Commemorative

Site Type: Broad

Commemorative Monument

Site Type: Specific

Effigy

General Period

MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Medieval 1066 to 1540

Form of Evidence

Structure

Description

The church contains two C14 effigies - one of a knight of the Hilton family (under a much restored canopy in the chancel) and one of a clergyman or priest, now much defaced.

Easting

440170

Northing

557780

Grid Reference

NZ440170557780

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 107; C.H. Hunter Blair, 1929, Mediaeval Effigies in the County of Durham [read on 26th September, 1928], Archaeologia Aeliana, Series 4, Vol. VI, pp 1-51