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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

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