CARVED STONE FRAGMENT, 25 METRES SOUTH OF NEASHAM HILL

CARVED STONE FRAGMENT, 25 METRES SOUTH OF NEASHAM HILL, NEASHAM HILL

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1116260
Date first listed:: 27-Jan-1988
List Entry Name:: CARVED STONE FRAGMENT, 25 METRES SOUTH OF NEASHAM HILL
Statutory Address:: CARVED STONE FRAGMENT, 25 METRES SOUTH OF NEASHAM HILL, NEASHAM HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1116260
Date first listed:: 27-Jan-1988
List Entry Name:: CARVED STONE FRAGMENT, 25 METRES SOUTH OF NEASHAM HILL
Statutory Address 1:: CARVED STONE FRAGMENT, 25 METRES SOUTH OF NEASHAM HILL, NEASHAM HILL

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: CARVED STONE FRAGMENT, 25 METRES SOUTH OF NEASHAM HILL, NEASHAM HILL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Darlington (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Neasham
National Grid Reference:: NZ 33123 10397

Details

NEASHAM NEASHAM HILL NZ 31 SW (South side, off)

8/122 Carved stone fragment, 25 metres south of Neasham Hill II

Carved stone fragment with representation of the Crucifixion. Possibly C12; formerly set in wall of Neasham Hill but moved to present position c.1983. Sandstone. 0.75-metre high rectangular block on late C20 stone base. Worn figures in relief representing: Crucifixion of Christ on front; draped figure on rear; a pilgrim (?) with staff and part of a Latin inscription on sides. The fragment is thought to have been removed from the ruins of Neasham Abbey, a Benedictine Nunnery founded c.1156.

(T. Fordyce, The History and Antiquities of County Durham, Vol. 1, 1837).

Listing NGR: NZ3312310397

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 350478
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Fordyce, T, The History and Antiquities of County Durham, (1837)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.