Lintrathen Parish Church
Carved Stone (Early Medieval), Cross Slab (Early Medieval)
Site Name Lintrathen Parish Church
Classification Carved Stone (Early Medieval), Cross Slab (Early Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Lintrathen Church; Parish Kirk
Canmore ID 318443
Site Number NO25SE 3.03
NGR NO 28554 54579
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Angus
- Parish Lintrathen
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Angus
- Former County Angus
Lintrathen, Angus, carved stone
Measurements: H 0.30m, W unknown, D 0.05m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NO 28554 54579
Present location: built into the exterior wall of the church at the SW corner..
Evidence for discovery: recognised as an early medieval carved stone in 1990.
Present condition: broken and weathered.
Description
The visible face of this fragment is part of the narrow face of a probable cross-slab, and it is carved in relief within a plain flat-band moulding with at least two knots of median-incised cords.
Date range: early medieval.
Primary references: DES 1990, 39.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2018.
Note (1983)
Lintrathen NO c. 285 545 NO25SE 3
Before 1884 a fragment of a sculptured cross (now lost) was discovered near the church at Lintrathen.
RCAHMS 1983
(Warden 1880-85, iv, 208).
Reference (1990)
A fragment of a celtic cross slab is built into the church wall, just outside the door which leads to the vestry, just above head height on the SW corner of the church.
The stone is a narrow edge or top of a cross slab (5cm by 30cm), carved out of a very greyish piece of Old Red Sandstone, and bears a single row of interlace which occupies its width.
It would appear to be part of a 9th century cross slab.
Sponsor: Angus District Museums.
N K Atkinson 1990.
