Tyne and Wear HER(12202): Monkwearmouth, Church of St. Peter, effigies of knights - Details
12202
Sunderland
Monkwearmouth, Church of St. Peter, effigies of knights
Monkwearmouth
NZ45NW
Commemorative
Commemorative Monument
Effigy
Medieval
C14
Structure
The church contains two C14 effigies - one of a knight of the Hilton family (under a much restored canopy in the chancel) and one of a clergyman or priest, now much defaced.
4017
5778
NZ40175778
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 107; 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