Ryton, Holy Cross Church, medieval gravestones

HER Number:
12204

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Ryton, Holy Cross Church, medieval gravestones

Place:
Ryton

Map Sheet:
NZ16SE

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Grave Marker

Site Type: Specific:
Gravestone

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Structure

Description:
In the churchyard there are two coped medieval grave stones of Frosterley Marble. They lie on the south side of the churchyard path around 30m east of the east end. In 1883 C.C. Hodges sketched these.

Easting:
1515

Northing:
6482

Grid Reference:
NZ15156482

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 110; D.A. Briggs and N.I. Dugdale, not dated, A Guide to Holy Cross Church, Ryton-on-Tyne, p. 44