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St Peter's (Bywell)
Trip No.151 Entry No.1 Date Added: 27th Sep 2019
Site Type: Early Christian Sculptured Stone
Country: England (Northumberland)
Visited: Yes on 14th Sep 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
St Peter's (Bywell) submitted by Anne T on 27th Sep 2019. The visible portion of Ryder's Bywell (St Peter's) 13, with a "cross head set within a circle, with sunk lenticular segments between the arms, and a circle at the centre" on the visible section. The small circle can be seen just left of centre of the photograph; the rest of the design is hidden by moss.
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Log Text: St Peter's, Bywell: Having photographed the cross slabs at St. Andrew's on 10th September 2019, we walked down to St Peter's to try and photograph the slabs Peter Ryder has recorded here. Unfortunately, the church was locked, so we photographed the few slabs on the outside of the building, returning on 14th September, after having ascertained from the vicar the church's opening hours.
This is a really lovely spot, right next to the River Tyne, with the Bywell Village/Market cross and St Andrew's Church, Bywell, with its significant collection of medieval cross slabs and its Anglo Saxon sculptured stones.
Old Viney Museum (Corbridge)
Trip No.151 Entry No.2 Date Added: 16th Sep 2019
Site Type: Sculptured Stone
Country: England (Northumberland)
Visited: Yes on 14th Sep 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Old Viney Museum (Corbridge) submitted by Anne T on 16th Sep 2019. This stone is built into a wall at the northern side of the cottage, inside the garden. It is recorded as Ryder's Viney 3 and as the Corpus of Anglo Saxon Stone Sculpture's Corbridge 02. It is part carved with three stemmed crosses joined by horizontal arms, and is thought to have been created during the Saxon-Norman overlap period. "The centre of each cross is ringed and within the ring the arms are narrower than the uprights." The Corpus suggests it might have been the side of an altar or...
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Log Text: The Old Viney Museum, Corbridge: [Photographed the Prince's Street Pant at the corner of the road prior to walking up Appletree Lane.] We had long sought out the location of this museum, where we knew some of the stones recorded on the Corpus of Anglo Saxon Stone Sculpture were built into its walls. Having found Peter Ryder's Cross Slab papers for south west Northumberland, we finally had a street, so went seeking the property, thinking we'd be able to see it from outside.
We were really fortunate to find the owner of the cottage working in his garage, and he was delighted to show us round, leaving us to take photographs. He was also really interested in the documentation I'd taken along (I have since sent him a copy by way of thanks). His father purchased the museum and adjacent school buildings in the 1970s and his family has owned them ever since.
What a treat! I felt so lucky to be welcomed in and to see these stones, which we've wanted to see for at least three years now. Brilliant.