Tyne and Wear HER(12200): Lamesley, Church of St. Andrew, two medieval grave slabs - Details
12200
Gateshead
Lamesley, Church of St. Andrew, two medieval grave slabs
Lamesley
NZ25NE
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Grave Marker
Grave Slab
Medieval
C13
Structure
1) slab of coarse orange/brown sandstone 1.49m x 0.49m x 0.42m, base missing. Now on the floor at the east end of the south aisle. Incised design, straight-arm cross with fleur-de-lys terminals, shears on right of shaft. Late C13 or C14. 2) slab of coarse orange/brown sandstone 1.89m x 0.55m x 0.48m. The edge has a moulding of two rolls with a hollow chamfer in-between. The cross head is an ornate double-ring form, the outer ring of 8 round-leaf bracelets and the inner of 4. The axes of the inner cross are set diagonally to those of the slab. The cross head is carved in relief within a sunken panel and parts of the design overlap the inner moulding. The remainder of the design is incised. The cross shaft rises from a three step cavlary base. On the right of the shaft is a two-line inscription, only the first half is legible. Boyle (1892, 607) gives this as: "HIC IN TVMBA LACET….. PRO ANIMA EIVS ORA……". The cross head form would suggest a date in the first half of the C13.
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5790
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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 102; J.R. Boyle, 1892, Comprehensive Guide to the County of Durham, p. 607