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Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: St Edwin''s (High Coniscliffe) Alternative Name: St Edwin's (Coniscliffe)Country: England
NOTE: This site is 3.289 km away from the location you searched for.
County: County Durham Type: Ancient Cross
Nearest Town: Darlington Nearest Village: High Coniscliffe
Map Ref: NZ2257815234
Latitude: 54.531884N Longitude: 1.652617W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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Anne T visited on 8th Nov 2017 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 5 Anglo Saxon Fragments, High Coniscliffe: This was a most unexpected location, as my perception was that the church should be within a quiet little village, but the reality was it was just off the main road, the A67 to Bishop Auckland. We parked by the footpath at NZ 22567 15316, and had to walk past the front of the Old Rectory to get to the lych gate.
There were so many stones in the walls of this church. So many of them were greatly weathered sandstone, and looked like any of them could have been carved then worn down. The walls of the church were a real patchwork of colours – light, medium, dark and red sandstone.
We couldn’t get into the porch. A notice on the gate of the church said keys were available at houses nearby, but none of them had lights on, so we headed home, but not before I’d spotted the view from the south western end of the churchyard down to the River Tees below. Great!
St Edwin's Church is a grade II listed building, the west end of the nave dating from around 1170 AD, the western part of the south nave wall to the early/mid 13th century and the nave, chancel and tower to the 14th century. It is scheduled as Historic England List ID 1115562.
Sitting on an impressive site above the north bank of the River Tees in High Coniscliffe village, on the A67 heading west out of Darlington. It is made of a patchwork of different coloured, very worn sandstones, and incorporates a number of pre-Conquest stones built into the interior and exterior walls.
These stones are recorded in Volume 1 of the Corpus of Anglo Saxon Stone Sculpture, starting at Coniscliffe 01.
At the time of our visit, the church was locked, but a list of key holders is pinned on the lych gate. Only one of the stones listed on the AS Corpus is within the building, within the porch.
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