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St Mary Magdalene (Hart)
Trip No.156 Entry No.4 Date Added: 12th Feb 2020
Site Type: Early Christian Sculptured Stone
Country: England (County Durham)
Visited: Yes on 5th Feb 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
St Mary Magdalene (Hart) submitted by Anne T on 12th Feb 2020. This fragment of namestone/pillow stone is not recorded by either the Corpus of Anglo Saxon Stone Sculpture or Guy Poinds in his Gazetteer of Anglo Saxon and Viking Sites: Northumberland and County Durham. Fragments of what look like runic writing can be seen in the bottom left hand quadrant, and it is a much better example than the one in the Museum of Hartlepool. I have emailed the vicar asking if she has any information about where and when it was found.
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Log Text: St Mary Magdalene, Hart: From the exterior of the building, I did not expect to 'walk back in time' into this splendid parish church. Such a sense of history, and what fragments of sculptured stones - a real treat. The church was only open for an hour on Wednesdays, between 3pm and 4pm at this time of year, essentially for quiet prayer, but the time flew, and we kept the church warden longer than intended. I would have loved to have spent another hour here, just enjoying the atmosphere.
St Hilda's Wayside Cross (Hartlepool)
Trip No.156 Entry No.2 Date Added: 11th Feb 2020
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (County Durham)
Visited: Yes on 5th Feb 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
St Hilda's Wayside Cross (Hartlepool) submitted by Anne T on 11th Feb 2020. Looking down into the socket hole of the cross base, which is about 20cms square, and 5-6cms deep. The remains of old lead can be seen around the edges of the socket hole, indicating it once held a cross shaft or other fragment.
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Log Text: Wayside Cross base outside St Hilda's Church: I spotted this more by accident than design, and photographed it, before we rushed off to the old Gray Art Gallery and Museum site to try and track down its old site. We couldn't find it where the grid reference placed it. A worker from the now office building, William Gray House, which now houses the Council and Tees Archaeology, told us the art gallery had closed in 1995 although people still came looking for it. He had no knowledge of a cross base in the grounds.
It wasn't until I got home and was doing some research that I came across the HE entry, which we hadn't seen earlier, which told us the cross base had been moved to this location in 1997.
St Hilda's Church (Hartlepool)
Trip No.156 Entry No.1 Date Added: 11th Feb 2020
Site Type: Early Christian Sculptured Stone
Country: England (County Durham)
Visited: Yes on 5th Feb 2020. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
St Hilda's Church (Hartlepool) submitted by Anne T on 11th Feb 2020. The impressive Hildthryth namestone, on display on the eastern wall of the St Nicolas Chapel, on the southern side of the sanctuary. Also recorded as Hartlepool 01 on the Corpus of Anglo Saxon Stone Sculpture. The stone measures 27cms high, 29cms wide and 11cms deep. Poinds tells us: "The west face is decorated with a plain border which surrounds a large cross whose centre is square rather than circular and whose cross arms are square ended. The lettering on each side of the upper vertical arm o...
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Log Text: St Hilda's, the Headland, Hartlepool: What a magnificent building, with its collection of huge flying buttresses supporting the external walls of the tower. Inside, it is more like a mini-cathedral than a parish church.
We had the pleasure of being greeted by Mr. John Hogg, parishioner with responsibility for Visitor Ministry, and the most knowledgeable guide we could wish to meet.
We spent almost the full hour and a half looking round the church, the fragments in the Brus Chapel and the old south door, plus admiring the Hildthryth stone in the St Nicholas Chapel. I just wish the opening hours of the church had been longer, as I was really interested to see the display boards located around the south and north walls of the nave.
The altar rails are also interesting, as they are made of 1,000 year old oak (but do look Victorian!). A real gem, and well worth a visit.