Newcastle, Church of St. Andrew, Anglo-Saxon grave marker

HER Number:
11621

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle, 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:

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:
2455

Northing:
6441

Grid Reference:
NZ24556441

Lats/Lons:

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