Archaeology Notes

Event ID 818043

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NM22SE 4.5 28651 24508.

(NM 2865 2450) Cross (NR)

OS 25" map (1900)

The restored cross of St John the Evangel, which was replaced by a concrete replica in 1970. The broken parts of the original, which probably dated from c.800 and which was restored in 1926, are housed in the Nunnery Museum.

The replica is mounted on a concrete block, about which the original base, with corner stones worked to hold side slabs, has been reassembled, missing parts being made good with suitable stone.

The name "St John's Cross" was formerly applied to what is now St Mathew's Cross (NM22SE 4.4), though neither name is of any great age.

J J Waddell 1941; J Morrison 1953; J R Allen 1901; R Reece, undated