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Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: St Mary's Church (Wycliffe)Country: England
NOTE: This site is 0.213 km away from the location you searched for.
County: County Durham Type: Ancient Cross
Nearest Town: Barnard Castle Nearest Village: Wycliffe
Map Ref: NZ1167314325
Latitude: 54.524081N Longitude: 1.821165W
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Anne T visited on 1st Jul 2018 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Hogback and Anglo Danish/Saxon cross fragments, Wycliffe, County Durham: This is a spectacular little village, down a narrow, dead end lane leading to the River Tees. It was difficult to park, as the lane to the church has a sign saying ‘private road’ (although a sign also says ‘to the church’), so we bumped up on the verge, as close to a stone wall as we dared, leaving just enough room for another car to pass (everywhere else said ‘private’ or ‘no parking’.
Walking down the lane to the church, we approached from the north west, walking round to the south porch, which held a ‘welcome’ notice. A strange church – lovely, warm (but very worn) yellow sandstone, but no tower, just a couple of bells.
The main hogback fragment is just to the west of the south door, inside the church, with another fragment immediately opposite, and more against the western wall.
There is a really old Bishop’s chair against the north wall of the sanctuary, a Norman (11th century) font also against the north wall of the sanctuary and some really interesting 13th and 14th century glass.
When I got a phone signal, we realised we’d not seen the hogback fragment in the exterior southern wall, and as we were passing on our way back, went back to spot this and also found a boundary marker at the entrance to the churchyard.
St Mary's Church in Wyclffe used to be in North Yorkshire until a county boundary change brought it into County Durham. Sited on the south bank of the River Tees, this 13th/14th century church includes two hogback fragments and fragments of Anglo Saxon sculptured stone.
The church itself is recorded asPastscape Monument No. 1398602; the hogbacks and fragments are recorded as Pastscape Monument 21916 and Historic England List ID 1322763.
More information on the stones can be found in the Corpus of Anglo Saxon Stone Sculpture (Wycliffe 01 to 10) - start at AS Corpus Wycliffe 01 (Yorkshire - North Riding Catalogue).
There is also some important and interesting 13th and 14th century stained glass, a Norman font dating to the 11th century and what looks like an Elizabethan oak Bishop's chair placed against the north wall in the sanctuary.
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