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placename:- | Gosforth Cross | |
site name:- | St Mary's Church | |
locality:- | Gosforth | |
parish |
Gosforth parish, once in
Cumberland
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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 | ||
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Bell 1880s-1940s
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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)
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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)
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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. | ||
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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
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Guide book, Pearson's Gossipy Guide to the English Lakes and Neighbouring Districts, published by C Arthur Pearson, Henrietta Street, London, 1900s. | ||
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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
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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. | ||
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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
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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:- | ||
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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. | ||
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Heimdal, the warder of Asgard, with spear and Giallar horn, restrains the monsters before the last battle of Ragnarok. | ||
South face:- | ||
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Engravings by M Petersen. | ||
East Face:- | ||
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Sketch by W S Calverley. | ||
Referred to as the crucifixion panel:- | ||
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Perhaps Odin, perhaps Baldr, wounded by a spear. The spear held, perhaps, by blind Hodr, and the wife of Baldr, Nanna, on the right. | ||
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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 | ||