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Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: Hinderwell Cross Head Alternative Name: St Hilda's Church (Hinderwell)Country: England
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County: Yorkshire (North) Type: Ancient Cross
Nearest Town: Whitby Nearest Village: Hinderwell
Map Ref: NZ7912217030
Latitude: 54.542359N Longitude: 0.77851W
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Anne T visited on 4th Mar 2020 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 3 Access: 4 The Hinderwell Cross Head, St Hilda's Church: Whilst the church itself is well kept and nicely presented, this cross head is tucked away in the foyer of the church, at the bottom of the stairwell leading to the gallery/organ.
After photographing the well, we wandered up to the church, finding it open. Just inside, to the left hand side of the lobby, next to the stairs ascending to the gallery, was a cross head, which I photographed. Inside was a leaflet describing local heritage, and I found a short section about both Lythe and the Hinderwell Cross in there.
Just outside the south door, about 3m to the south west, is part of either a cross base or a column, which I also photographed.
Guy Points, in his Gazetteer of Anglo Saxon and Viking Sites: Yorkshire, only mentions the well (pages 161/162).
From St Hilda's Well in the churchyard, we wandered up to the church, pleasantly surprised to find it open. The Historic England List ID 1179349 entry for this church mentions the church contains "some pieces of Saxon carving, also a column or cross base". Pastscape Monument No. 1396812 tells us that the church was rebuilt in 1773 "on (a) mediaeval site with Saxon origins".
Inside the west porch, at the base of the staircase, I was surprised to see an old cross head propped against the base of the stairs leading up to the gallery/organ. I later found out this is recorded as AS Corpus Hinderwell 01 (St Hilda). This is a cross head of late-eleventh century date (date queried by the Corpus), which is "a is a plainer version of the type of cross-head found on the two round-headed grave-markers at Whitby Abbey …. and may be post-Conquest". The two broad faces are identical, showing a cross with solid plate-infill between the arms of the cross. It is thought to be a fragment of the original stone church.
A good look around the church resulted in no other Saxon fragments being found, although on first walking up to the church, I spotted what looked like part of a column base, about 3m to the south west of the western entrance, next to the steps leading down into the churchyard. The face away from the church shows some signs of very worn interlacing, indicating the stone may have been part of a cross. The shaping of this stone reminded me very much of the shape of the Maiden Cross, the western sanctuary cross for Hexham Priory, now located at the entrance to the car park for Hexham Hospital, as if the original cross had been re-shaped and re-purposed at some time in the distant past.
The Corpus of Anglo Saxon Stone Sculpture also records a fragment of a hogback stone, recorded by antiquarians, but now lost: see AS Corpus Hinderwell 02 (St Hilda).
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