ANGLO-SAXON REMAINS 



single cord, (iii) A fragment of the arm of a cross of Anglian form. It has 

 knot-work of simple character on the two faces and the end of the arm. 

 (iv) A piece of a cross-sliaft 12 inches by 9 inches by 5J inches, having the 

 lower portions of two figures, and beneath them the head and part of the 

 twisted body of a monster. One edge has a well-cut double plait, the other 

 a single plait, (v) Another exhibits on one side two nimbed figures witli 

 their hands clasped, and on the other an eagle preening its feathers. The 

 edges have well-cut knot-work. (vi) Another has portions of only two 

 sides decipherable. One side has two figures precisely similar to the last, 

 while a simple flat knot occurs on the other, (vii) A fragment which has 

 been worked for a window sill and only shows its original use on one side. 

 This has been divided into panels, each containing knot-work. One of these 

 has a large, complicated plait, of which but a portion remains, while below 

 it is a narrow panel crossing the shaft, with a simple four-cord knot, (viii) A 

 fragment used to form the bowl of a thirteenth-century piscina. It has a 

 delicate and finely worked six-cord plait on one side, but from the other the 

 original ornament has been obliterated. 



All the above stones, except that now at Cambridge, are lying in the 

 porch or the churchyard, and were taken out of the walls of the church 

 during the restoration of 188 1—2. 



(ix, x) Built into the south wall of the chancel, inside, are two frag- 

 ments, the larger of which has two panels, each containing two figures of 

 similar character to those already described. The other, much smaller, is 

 part of a broader stone which has had panels, each containing three 

 figures. Only the heads of one triplet and the feet of another have survived. 

 (xi, xii) In the churchyard are the remains of two large and important 

 crosses. One stands just outside the south door of the chancel, and the other 

 some yards to the south-west of it. The base stone of the former is ancient, 

 and the lower part of the shaft appears never to have been removed from it. 

 The shaft is now complete for its whole length, and the only portions wanting 

 are the arms or keys of the cross-head. About 1845 the upper part of this 

 cross and the remaining portion of the shaft of the other, which was originally 

 very much larger and sculptured in a better manner, were used as lintels over 

 openings in the tower of the thirteenth-century church. They were subse- 

 quently erected inside the tower,^ but some years ago the upper portion of 

 the smaller cross was added to the piece of the shaft in the base in the 

 churchyard,' and the shaft of the larger one fixed into a modern base stone. 

 The dimensions of the more perfect cross are : base stone, 2 feet 3 inches by 

 I foot 9 inches by 2 feet ; shaft, 5 feet 1 1 inches high,' and the base to the 

 top I foot 5 inches wide and 7 inches thick. On the south side the greater 

 portion of the shaft is occupied with a design in which two monsters with 

 their heads downwards and having prominent snouts and ears are involved 

 with interlacing bands which originate in the feet of the monsters. Rising 

 to the head they form a large number of irregular loops, and returning down- 

 wards seem to terminate in the mouths of the beasts. The central part of the 

 crosshead is a large circular disc, and is treated similarly on both sides. The 

 cross symbol is emphasised by the disc being divided into four portions, each 



• Arch. Jeurn. iii. 259-261. * LongstafFe, History of Darlington, 215. 



' Tram. Dur. Northumb. Arch. Soc. iii. 51. 



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