The Bewcastle Cross is an Anglo-Saxon cross which is still in its original position within the churchyard of St Cuthbert's church at Bewcastle, in the...
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Bewcastle is a large civil parish in the Cumberland unitary authority area of Cumbria, England. It is in the historic county of Cumberland. According...
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early crosses surviving in good condition, whether at Ruthwell and Bewcastle, the Western Ossory group in Ireland, Iona or the Kildalton Cross on Islay...
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Pevsner thus: "The crosses of Bewcastle and Ruthwell ... are the greatest achievement of their date in the whole of Europe." The cross was smashed by Presbyterian...
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Tide dial (section Bewcastle Cross)
8th-century Bewcastle Cross in the church graveyard of St Cuthbert's in Bewcastle, Cumbria. It is carved on the south face of a Celtic cross at some height...
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chronologically between the Bewcastle Cross and the Gosforth cross and has greater affinity with the earlier Anglo-Roman style of Bewcastle. The west face has...
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Magdalene drying his feet. the Anglo-Saxon Bewcastle Cross, a very similar depiction to the Ruthwell Cross. the late Carolingian illustration for Psalm...
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Beckermet, Beckfoot, Beckside Beetham, Belah, Belle Vue, Berrier, Bewaldeth Bewcastle Biggar, Biglands, Bigrigg Birkby, Birkerthwaite Black Combe, Blackbeck...
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metalwork. It can be seen in and sculpture, such as the Ruthwell Cross and Bewcastle Cross. The devastating Viking raid on Lindisfarne in 793 marked the...
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Anglo-Saxon art (redirect from Anglo-Saxon cross)
or panel. Bewcastle Cross - south and east faces The Ruthwell Cross, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland The Gosforth Cross, Cumbria Irton Cross, Cumbria 8th-century...
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the stems cross over each other twice on each side, but crossing stems are also seen on the upper north face of the Bewcastle Cross and a cross in the church...
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the Ruthwell Cross and probably on the Bewcastle Cross. The unnamed ᛤ rune only appears on the Ruthwell Cross, where it seems to take calc's place as...
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The oldest sundial in England is a tide dial incorporated into the Bewcastle Cross, Cumbria, and dates from the 7th or early 8th century. Since the Greek...
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The Ruthwell Cross, Bewcastle Cross and Easby Cross are leading Northumbrian examples of the Anglo-Saxon version of the Celtic high cross, generally with...
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decorative church art, some situated in Cumbria, such as the Bewcastle Cross shaft, the Ireby Cross, and the golden liturgical water bowl found at Ormside....
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Ilkley and Lowther. It has similarities to the earlier Ruthwell Cross and Bewcastle Cross, from western Northumbria, which are larger and have more ambitious...
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Carragáin, "Ruthwell Cross", proposes a date between 730 and 750 for Ruthwell; Bailey, "Bewcastle", estimates between 725 and 750 for Bewcastle; more generally...
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968 AD – Magdeburg Ivories 800–820 AD – Easby Cross Ruthwell Cross Late 7th Century AD? – Bewcastle Cross 652 AD – The Giant Wild Goose Pagoda 634 AD –...
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therefore only had room for carved foliage, but the Bewcastle Cross, Easby Cross and Sandbach Crosses are other survivals with considerable areas of figurative...
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are a mausoleum of Sara Losh's sister, Katharine, and a copy of the Bewcastle Cross. St Mary's replaces an earlier parish church in Wreay. Losh funded...
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Hill sees a stylistic connection with the Bewcastle Cross in Cumbria, and Byzantine influences. The cross is now mounted on a nineteenth-century plinth...
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cross was of high status, it is less well executed than similar cross at Bewcastle, Ruthwell and Easby. Kilpatrick, Kelly (2020). The Hackness Cross:...
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the throne of Northumbria and it was possibly in that year that the Bewcastle Cross was erected, bearing English runes, which shows that they were certainly...
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the new church at Clonmacnoise; Karkov, Catherine E. (1997), "The Bewcastle Cross: Some iconographic problems", in Karkov, Catherine E.; Ryan, Michael;...
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Nicolson took an interest in runic scripts. In 1685 he visited the Bewcastle Cross. He also saw the runic inscription on the baptismal font at Bridekirk...
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Mary's Church, an adjacent mausoleum, and a copy of the 7th-century Bewcastle Cross. The church, designed and built in basilica form in 1840–1842 by the...
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Athelney, Somerset Barnack, St John the Baptist's Church, Peterborough Bewcastle Cross, Cumbria Breamore Church, Hampshire Brechin Round Tower, Angus Breedon...
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Prose (1908), ed. with Chauncey Brewster Tinker Some Accounts of the Bewcastle Cross Between the Years 1607 and 1861 (1914) Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911)....
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Wilfrid's palm cross, that would have stood outside his cathedral. The design on the remains of the cross are similar to those on the Bewcastle Cross and it is...
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Maen Achwyfan (redirect from Maen Achwyfan Cross)
Lhuyd also argued that the cross had "been erected by the Danes" and likened its artwork to that of a similar cross at Bewcastle in Cumberland. In the mid-eighteenth...
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