Holy Cross Church, grave slab

HER Number

12205

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Holy Cross Church, grave slab

Place

Ryton

Map Sheet

NZ16SE

Class

Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad

Grave Marker

Site Type: Specific

Grave Slab

General Period

MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Medieval 1066 to 1540

Form of Evidence

Structure

Description

In 1883 C.C. Hodges recorded a slab in the floor of the south aisle. It retained a few words of a black letter inscription, including the date 155(3?).

Easting

415150

Northing

564830

Grid Reference

NZ415150564830

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