Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	cross, Lanercost
	Lanercost Cross
locality:-	Lanercost Priory
locality:-	Lanercost
civil parish:-	Burtholme (formerly Cumberland)
county:-	Cumbria
locality type:-	cross
coordinates:-	NY55576375
1Km square:-	NY5563
10Km square:-	NY56
evidence:-	database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-	courtesy of English Heritage "CROSS BASE NORTH WEST OF LANERCOST PRIORY / / / BURTHOLME / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / I / 78139 / NY5557563753"
source data:-	courtesy of English Heritage "Priory Cross. Dated 1214. Carved red sandstone. Stepped plinth, chamfered square socket stone and fragment of shaft with carved decoration to edges, much weathered. The remainder of the shaft, with its cross head missing, was used as a gravestone in 1657 and when the nave was reroofed in the early C18, it was taken inside where it can be seen in the north aisle. Latin inscription translates: In the 1214th year from the Incarnation and the seventh year of the Interdict, Innocent III holding the Apostolic See, Otto being Emperor in Germany, Philip of France, John King of England and William King of Scotland, this Cross was made. See John R.H. Moorman, Lanercost Priory, 1983, pp16-17."
	BOW28.jpg  The cross base, outside (taken 21.3.2008)   BOW32.jpg  Lanercost Cross, inside. (taken 21.3.2008)
hearsay:-	Lanercost Cross was erected in 1214 about the time the first phase of building was completed.
	Lord William Howard recorded the cross in 1607.
	The inscription is:-
	In the 1214th year from the Incarnation and the 7th year from the Interdict, Innocent II holding the apostolic see, Otto being Emperior of Germany, Philip reigning in France, John in England and William in Scotland, this cross was made.
	In 1657 it had been broken and used as a gravestone for a child,
	... buried ye 20 July 1657 2d yere of his age
	In the 18th century it was used in building a barn, and was restored to a cross 1888.

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