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<< Our Photo Pages >> St Martin's Church (Kirklevington) - Early Christian Sculptured Stone in England in Yorkshire (North)

Submitted by Anne T on Tuesday, 24 March 2020  Page Views: 1711

Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: St Martin's Church (Kirklevington)
Country: England County: Yorkshire (North) Type: Early Christian Sculptured Stone
Nearest Town: Stockton on Tees  Nearest Village: Kirklevington
Map Ref: NZ4317309860
Latitude: 54.482260N  Longitude: 1.335168W
Condition:
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4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
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2co-ordinates of the nearest village
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Anne T visited - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 St Martin's Church, Kirklevington: Visited just before first lockdown was enforced. The church wardens opened the church for us and made us very welcome, but what we didn't know before our visit was that most of the stones are at the Preston Park Museum in Stockton-on-Tees. # There is obviously some 'bad blood' between the congregation and the museum, as the church warden and the ladies cleaning the church made it very clear they think the stones have been 'stolen' and belong in the church. Am trying to arrange a visit to the museum at some time in the future.

St Martin's Church (Kirklevington)
St Martin's Church (Kirklevington) submitted by Anne T : The three replicas of (left to right) AS Corpus Kirklevington 01, 02 and 15, which sit against the west wall of the chancel. The originals are now in Preston Hall Museum in Stockton. It is a shame these replicas are relatively poor quality; I am looking forward to seeing the originals. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Early Christian Sculptured Stones and Medieval Cross Slabs in Yorkshire (North)

It is thought there has been a church on this site, at Forest Lane, Kirklevington, since the 9th century, although the earliest surviving structure dates from the 12th and 13th centuries. Listed as Historic England List ID 1329828 and Pastscape Monument No. 26796, we are told the church was largely restored in 1882-3.

The Corpus of Anglo Saxon Stone Sculpture records 25 Anglo Saxon stones at Kirklevington (see Kirklevington 01 (then use the arrows towards the top right hand side of the screen to scroll through), although since this catalogue was published, those stones not built into the fabric of the building has been relocated to Preston Hall Museum in Stockton (note: we had an appointment with the museum to see the stones on display and talk to a curator about the stones in storage, but the museum is currently closed until further notice due to the Coronovirus crisis. We will at some point be rearranging this visit). Replicas of Kirklevington 01, 02 and 15 are freestanding against the western wall of the chancel. One of the stones has been moved to St Hilary's Church, Picton.

The stones are also recorded in Guy Points' "A Gazetteer of Anglo Saxon and Viking Sites: Yorkshire" (2007), pages 193 to 197 inclusive, although at the time of writing, all the stones were still present within the church.

In addition to the stones built into the fabric of the church, there is a fine collection of medieval cross slabs, also built into the internal and external fabric.

Note: This church is usually kept locked during the day, but we arranged with the church warden to have access. See 'A Church Near You' for contact details.
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St Martin's Church (Kirklevington)
St Martin's Church (Kirklevington) submitted by Anne T : These two pieces of medieval cross slabs are to be found in the external east wall, just below the central lancet window. Number 23 is at the bottom of the photograph, is in two part, and shows a sword with a central groove. The two fragments are set at a slight angle to each other; The left hand fragment does not have a chamfer, so may be from a different slab; however, the sword on both section... (Vote or comment on this photo)

St Martin's Church (Kirklevington)
St Martin's Church (Kirklevington) submitted by Anne T : This is a replica of AS Corpus Kirklevington 01, part of a cross shaft which is dated to the tenth century. The original is in Preston Hall Museum. Standing with AS Corpus Kirklevington 02 and 15 at the western end of the chancel (inside), the Corpus describe the lower panel as having: "two crudely cut frontal figures with pear-shaped heads and incised features. From round shoulders their arms han... (Vote or comment on this photo)

St Martin's Church (Kirklevington)
St Martin's Church (Kirklevington) submitted by Anne T : This rather poor replica is of AS Corpus Kirklevington 02, which is dated to the first half of the tenth century. The original is in Preston Hall Museum. It sits against the western internal wall of the chancel between AS Corpus Kirklevingon 01 and Kirklevington 15. The figure in the lower panel is deeply carved, the Corpus describing it as: "The features are incised: a horizontal slit for the mou... (Vote or comment on this photo)

St Martin's Church (Kirklevington)
St Martin's Church (Kirklevington) submitted by Anne T : This fragment of cross shaft is dated to the tenth century, and can be found in the exterior eastern wall, between the central and northern lancet windows. It is recorded as AS Corpus Kirklevington 09, and is described as: "On the left is a worn edge moulding. Within the panel is an axial straight strand threading free rings". The Corpus describes the ring chain as 'primitive'. (Vote or comment on this photo)

St Martin's Church (Kirklevington)
St Martin's Church (Kirklevington) submitted by Anne T : This small fragment of cross shaft is dated to the late ninth to mid-tenth century, and can be found built into the exterior west wall of the vestry, 2.7m above the ground. Recorded as AS Corpus Kirklevington 13, this fragment is very worn, with a central raised stem, above which is a broken loop; below are two and a half loops of incised strand (just about visible today). (Vote or comment on this photo)

St Martin's Church (Kirklevington)
St Martin's Church (Kirklevington) submitted by Anne T : I thought at first my photograph was very blurred but before cropping the photograph, the rest of the stones around AS Corpus Kirklevington 14 were sharp in and in focus, so the panel is very worn. The Corpus dates this to late ninth to the mid-tenth century, and describes it as: "Possibly the swag of a round-shaft derivative. The broad flat moulding sweeps round the swag and contains within it a...

St Martin's Church (Kirklevington)
St Martin's Church (Kirklevington) submitted by Anne T : This fragment is dated from the late ninth to mid tenth century, and can be found built into the exterior eastern wall of the nave, near its junction with the south wall of the chancel. It is partly concealed by a large, modern drainpipe. It is recorded as AS Corpus Kirklevington 22, and shows (on the left hand side) part of a broad edge moulding which curves at the top and with "a median incisio...

St Martin's Church (Kirklevington)
St Martin's Church (Kirklevington) submitted by Anne T : Digitally cropping the previous image of AS Corpus Kirklevington 23, and enlarging and sharpening it to try and bring out the remains of the plain edge mouldings and part of a ring knot on this stone.

St Martin's Church (Kirklevington)
St Martin's Church (Kirklevington) submitted by Anne T : I thought I had taken a close up photograph of this stone, recorded as AS Corpus Kirklevington 23 whilst we were waiting for the church to be unlocked, but no. The red arrows show the location of this fragment of cross shaft built into the exterior eastern wall, between the southern and central lancet windows. It is dated to the first half of the tenth century, and shows the remains of plain edge...

St Martin's Church (Kirklevington)
St Martin's Church (Kirklevington) submitted by Anne T : This very worn fragment is dated to possibly pre-Conquest times, and can be found built into the exterior west wall of the vestry "0.15m above the ground and 0.6m from the north west corner". It is recorded as AS Corpus Kirklevington 24, and shows "A twist of broad-band interlace, with a possible edge moulding above", but is now almost completely weathered away.

St Martin's Church (Kirklevington)
St Martin's Church (Kirklevington) submitted by Anne T : We thought the long yellow stone, just above centre/right of the photograph may be AS Corpus Kirklevington 25, as the strong sunlight brought out (to our eyes) very worn interlacing (but may just be differential weathering). The Corpus records this possibly pre-Conquest fragment of stone, for which no illustration has survived, and which has possibly been destroyed by weathering in recent times. (1 comment)

St Martin's Church (Kirklevington)
St Martin's Church (Kirklevington) submitted by Anne T : The Corpus of Anglo Saxon Stone Sculpture gives a reference to Collingwood's sketches of the Kirklevington sculptured stones from the "Anglian and Anglo-Danish sculpture in the North Riding of Yorkshire". Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, XIX, 1907. Most of these stones are now in the Preston Hall Museum, Preston Park, Stockton (visit to be arranged when the museum reopens after Coronavirus lockdo...

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Re: St Martin's Church (Kirklevington) by Anne T on Tuesday, 09 August 2022
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After 2 and a quarter years of waiting, we've finally been able to arrange a visit to the Preston Park Museum to see the rest of the stones from Kirklevington! This is to be on 10th August 2022 at 2pm. In the meantime, the museum kindly provided a copy of a Word document, prepared by Craig Beckham, with some photographs and notes about the stones they hold. This document leans very heavily on the Corpus of Anglo Saxon of Stone Sculpture records. Very much looking forward to this visit.
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Re: St Martin's Church (Kirklevington) by Anne T on Tuesday, 24 March 2020
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There are a total of 25 A-S stones recorded by the Corpus of Anglo Saxon Stone Sculpture, about half of which are now in Preston Hall Museum in Stockton (currently closed until the current Coronavirus crisis is over), plus 32 medieval grave slabs built into the fabric (as recorded by Peter Ryder, Historic Buildings Consultant).
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