The broad and narrow faces of a carved Anglo Saxon cross-shaft from All Saints church

Date:: 1900 - 1920

Location:: All Saints Church, Sockburn, Darlington

Reference:: OP25505

Type:: Photograph (Printing Out Paper Print)

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Description

On the broad face a procession of extended animals is enclosed by a baluster edge which falls into a swag terminating with a fox like mask. The narrow face is a composition of simple patterns enclosed in the same manner as the broad face. Now in Conyers Chapel.

Archival History

This photograph was withdrawn from the open Red Box Collection for conservation reasons during the 2011-12 Red Box Project.

Content

This is part of the Series: RBO01/14 Early Photographic Print Collection: Durham; within the Collection: RBO01 Early Photographic Print Collection

Rights

Source: Historic England Archive

Keywords

Anglo Saxon Architecture, Stone Carving, Early Medieval Carved Stone