Church of St. Andrew, Anglo-Saxon grave marker
Church of St. Andrew, Anglo-Saxon grave marker
HER Number
11621
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Church of St. Andrew, Anglo-Saxon grave marker
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Grave Marker
Site Type: Specific
Grave Slab
General Period
EARLY MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Early Medieval 410 to 1066
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
Honeyman (1941, 118) stated that there was a grave marker or slab with a cross "having a single-step base and curious saltire head" of supposedly Anglo-Saxon style in St. Andrew's church. It was said to be in the Museum of Antiquities, but it cannot now be identified.
Easting
424550
Northing
564410
Grid Reference
NZ424550564410
Sources
R. Cramp, 1984, Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture, County Durham and Northumberland, 1, Parts 1 and 2, p 251; H.L. Honeyman, 1941, The Church of St. Andrew, Newcastle upon Tyne, Archaeologia Aeliana, Series 4, Vol XIX, pp 117-170