What is recorded here

Graveslab in Townparks North is a thirteenth or fourteenth-century limestone cross-slab set into the tower of St Patrick's church. Its coffin shape and compass-made circles suggest it marked a buried body before becoming part of the church wall. The stone still stands where restoration work exposed it, carrying the patience of medieval making into the present room.

From Potterton (2005, App. 13, 394-5, No. 1, Fig. 11, 1) Thirteenth/fourteenth-century cross-slab Set at floor level into north end of the west wall inside the tower of St Patrick's church (ME036-048012-), this small, coffin-shaped limestone cross-slab probably dates to the thirteenth or fourteenth century. It has an incised cross, the terminals, knop and centre of which are formed from compass-made circles. It was discovered during restoration work in 1937, ‘built into the north wall of the church, near the present organ chamber’ (from a placard). [Length: 69cm; Width: 26cm at top, decreasing to 16cm at bottom; Depth: 15cm]. Date of upload: 16 February, 2015

Thirteenth- or fourteenth-century Christian cross-slab; likely funerary in function. Its carved cross indicates medieval Christian burial practices and may be associated with an ecclesiastical or elite burial.

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