Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Gosforth Cross
	site name:-	St Mary's Church
	locality:-	Gosforth
	parish	Gosforth parish, once in Cumberland
	county:-	Cumbria
		cross
	coordinates:-	NY07230357
	10Km square:-	NY00
	1Km square	NY0703
		Gosforth Cross -- St Mary's Church -- Gosforth -- Gosforth -- Cumbria / -- 4.4.2007
		Gosforth Cross -- St Mary's Church -- Gosforth -- Gosforth -- Cumbria / -- 25.6.2009
	old photograph:-	Bell 1880s-1940s
		Photograph, b/w, Gosforth Cross, Gosforth, Cumberland, by Herbert Bell, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s?
	date:-	1890=1899
	period:-	19th century, late
	descriptive text:-	Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843)
		Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by William Ford, published by Charles Thurnham, London, et al, 1839; published 1839-52.
		Page 73:-
		...
		... in the churchyard a tall cross of British or Danish origin, sculptured on its four faces with various figures and devices. ...
	date:-	1839
	period:-	19th century, early; 1830s
	descriptive text:-	Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834)
		Guidebook, Concise Description of the English Lakes, later A Description of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, published by the author, Keswick, Cumberland, by J Richardson, London, and by Arthur Foster, Kirky Lonsdale, Cumbria, 1823 onwards.
		goto source.
		Page 132:-
		... the village of Gosforth, where a tall column carved with unintelligible characters stands in the church-yard on the right; ...
	date:-	1823
	period:-	19th century, early; 1820s
	old print:-	Pearson 1900s
		Guide book, Pearson's Gossipy Guide to the English Lakes and Neighbouring Districts, published by C Arthur Pearson, Henrietta Street, London, 1900s.
		Print, halftone photograph, Ancient Cross in Gosforth Churchyard, Cumberland, published by C Arthur Pearson, Henrietta Street, London, 1900s.
		On p.49 of Pearson's Gossipy Guide to the English Lakes and Neighbouring Districts.
		printed at bottom:-
		ANCIENT CROSS IN GOSFORTH CHURCHYARD. ...
	date:-	1900=1909
	period:-	1900s
	old print:-	Bogg 1898
		Book, Lakeland and Ribblesdale, OR A Thousand Miles of Wandering along the Roman Wall, the Old Border Region, Lakeland, and Ribblesdale, by Edmund Bogg, publishd by Edmund Bogg, 3 Woodhouse Lane, and James Miles, Guildford Street, Leeds, Yorkshire, 1898.
		Print, engraving, Gosforth Cross, Gosforth, Cumberland, published by Edmund Bogg, 3 Woodhouse Lane, and James Miles, Guildford Street, Leeds, Yorkshire, 1898.
		Included on p.208 of Lakeland and Ribblesdale, by Edmund Bogg.
	date:-
	period:-	19th century, late
	old print:-	Calverley 1899
		Notes on the Early Sulptured Crosses, Shrines and Monuments in the Present Diocese of Carisle, by Rev William Slater Calverley, edited by W G Collingwood, published for the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, by Titus Wilson, Kendal, Westmorland, 1899.
		In St Mary's churchyard:-
		Loki bound in Hel's dark home, with gyves round hands and feet, a bond round his neck, the adder round him with its body fastened to a ring above. Sigun kneels with poison cup in hand. The poison dripping on Loki makes him shudder, the cause of earthquakes.
		Heimdal, the warder of Asgard, with spear and Giallar horn, restrains the monsters before the last battle of Ragnarok.
		South face:-
		Engravings by M Petersen.
		East Face:-
		Sketch by W S Calverley.
		Referred to as the crucifixion panel:-
		Perhaps Odin, perhaps Baldr, wounded by a spear. The spear held, perhaps, by blind Hodr, and the wife of Baldr, Nanna, on the right.
		Vidar, son of Odin, his shoe on the jaw of the beast, Fenrir wolf, slays him.
		Engravings by M Petersen.
	date:-	1899
	period:-	19th century, late; 1890s
		photographs
		Gosforth Cross -- St Mary's Church -- Gosforth -- Gosforth -- Cumbria / -- 25.6.2009
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2013

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