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Articles

The Iconography of the St. Andrew Auckland Cross

Pages 543-555 | Published online: 14 Aug 2014
 

Abstract

The eighth-century sculptured cross at St. Andrew Auckland, near Durham, belongs to the same phase of Hiberno-Saxon art that produced the Ruthwell and Bewcastle crosses, and it is one of the few Northumbrian monuments on which much of the figural carving has survived, yet little attention has been given to the meaning of its program. Re-interpreting the principal figure panel of the cross, usually identified as a Crucifixion of Christ, as an early representation of the Martyrdom of Saint Andrew allows us to associate the monument with the see of Hexham and to suggest that the rest of the program is linked with contemporary interests of Anglo-Saxon literature in the fates of the Apostles.

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