St Peter's Church (Monkwearmouth)

Displayed on a shelf/niche in a passage in the modern vestry and ‘chapter house’ block on the north side of the chancel, this is recorded as Ryder's Monkwearmouth 8, and Fyson's 18 (1957, after CC Hodges' drawings). With a badly flaked surface, there is enough of the design left to date it the late 12th or 13th century. It is described as: "(a) complete limestone slab, 0.85m x 0.35m x 0.36m ... Conventional bracelet cross rising from a two-stepped calvary base, incised except for the head which is carved in relief within a sunk circle".