Houghton-le-Spring, Church of St. Michael, effigies of knight

HER Number:
12198

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Houghton-le-Spring, Church of St. Michael, effigies of knight

Place:
Houghton-le-Spring

Map Sheet:
NZ34NW

Class:
Commemorative

Site Type: Broad:
Commemorative Monument

Site Type: Specific:
Effigy

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:
C13-C14

Form of Evidence:
Structure

Description:
In the church are two good effigies of knights, one of late C13 date and the other of c. 1300.

Easting:
3418

Northing:
4985

Grid Reference:
NZ34184985

Lats/Lons:

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 99; 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