Ryton, Holy Cross Church, grave slab

HER Number:
12205

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Ryton, Holy Cross Church, grave slab

Place:
Ryton

Map Sheet:
NZ16SE

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Grave Marker

Site Type: Specific:
Grave Slab

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:
C16

Form of Evidence:
Structure

Description:
In 1883 C.C. Hodges recorded a slab in the floor of the south aisle. It retained a few words of a black letter inscription, including the date 155(3?).

Easting:
1515

Northing:
6483

Grid Reference:
NZ15156483

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