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Title
Bede Memorial Cross
Date
1904
Medium
stone
Measurements
H 750 x W 56 x D 44 cm;
Plinth: H 59 x W 158 x D 158 cm
Accession number
SR6_GL_S099
Acquisition method
paid for by public subscription
Work type
Monument
Owner
Sunderland City Council
Custodian
Sunderland City Council
Work status
extant
Listing status
Grade II (England and Wales)
Unveiling date
11th October 1904
Listing date
08/05/50
Access
at all times
Inscription description
incised on west face of column: TO THE HO / LY BISHOP / EADFRITH / AND THE / BRETHREN / WHO SERVE / CHRIST IN / THE ISLAND / OF LINDIS / FARNE. / I HAVE NOT / PRESUMED TO / WRITE DOWN / ANYTHING OF / SUCH A MAN / AS OUR FATHER / CUTHBERT WITH / OUT THE CLOSEST / ENQUIRY INTO / THE FACTS NOR / TO PUBLISH WHAT / I HAD WRITTEN / WITHOUT THE / MOST CAREFUL / SCRUTINY OF / SURE WITNESSES / --- / TO THE MOST / GLORIOUS KING / CEOLUULF / BEADA SERVANT / OF CHRIST / AND PRIEST / AT YOUR REQUEST / O KING I GLADLY / SENT SOME TIME / AGO MY DRAFT / OF THE CHURCH / HISTORY OF THE / ENGLISH RACE / THAT YOU MIGHT / READ AND APPROVE / IT. I NOW SEND / IT TO YOU AGAIN / TO BE COPIED / OUT THAT YOU / MAY STUDY IT / MORE FULLY AT / YOUR LEISURE.; Latin inscription below.; incised on south face of column; miniscule inscription Incised on east face of column: ERE A MAN GO HENCE / FARING AS ALL NEED FARE / NONE IS THERE MORE WISE / MORE THAN HE OUGHT TO BE / IN WELL BETHINKING / WHAT TO HIS SPIRIT / OF GOOD OR OF EVIL / AFTER HIS DEATH DAY / DOOMED MAY BE; incised on north face of column; runic inscription Incised on west (front) of base: UNVEILED 11TH OCTOBER 1904 Incised on south face of base: THIS MEMORIAL CROSS WAS REMOVED IN 1914 / FOR SAFETY DURING THE GREAT WAR / AND RE-ERECTED IN 1921. / G.W. MILBURN / YORK SCULPT; incised on east face of base: TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF / HIS SERVANT BAEDA THE VENERABLE WHO / WAS BORN BETWEEN WEAR AND TYNE DCLXXIII / AND DIED AT JARROW ASCENSION DAY DCXXXV
