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Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: Kirkhaugh Cross Alternative Name: Church of the Holy Paraclete (Kirkhaugh)Country: England
NOTE: This site is 0.315 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Northumberland Type: Ancient Cross
Nearest Town: Alston Nearest Village: Kirkhaugh
Map Ref: NY6993849420
Latitude: 54.838690N Longitude: 2.469587W
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| 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 |
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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 31st Aug 2018 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Kirkhaugh Cross, Church of the Holy Paraclete: Having seen one of the wells on the opposite side of the road, we turned our attention to finding the cross. This church is virtually hidden behind the trees, with only a portion of its eastern end and a narrow, tall spire peeping out of the trees at its western end.
I thought at first this cross was a modern grave marker, as it sits up a modern plinth, but closer examination showed this cross has been used as a gate post at least once in its past.
Behind the cross is a grave stone which has grown into the side of a large horse chestnut tree and been cracked. With the River South Tyne babbling away just behind the eastern churchyard wall, this is a lovely spot.
This ancient cross, dated to the second half of the eleventh century, is recorded as Corpus of Anglo Saxon Stone Sculpture, Pastscape Monument No. 13747 and Historic England List ID 1155479.
Classed as pre-Conquest Saxo-Norman, the cross is said to have survived because it had been previously used as a gatepost. It is now mounted on a 19th century stepped stone base and is located some 10m to the south of the door into the church.
The cross stands some 6ft 8ins high, and is cut from a single coarse-grained yellow sandstone block. Pastscape records it was re-sited into the churchyard of the Church of the Holy Paraclete in 1889.
The Corpus describes the cross as being 'complete but weathered', with "two lightly incised crosses at the top and bottom of the shaft", although we could not see these, either during our visit, or on enlargements of photographs later. The Corpus adds that crosses with similar shapes of head can be found on the North Yorkshire Moors, where they were erected as boundary or wayside crosses.
The church sits just to the east of the River South Tyne and is on the site of an older, 13th century, structure.
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