Bede Memorial Cross, Roker Terrace, Roker, Sunderland
Formerly known as: Bede Memorial Cross, Cliff Park WHITBURN ROAD. Memorial cross. 1904. Signed `GW Millburn York Sculpt’ and `CC Hodges, Hexham, inv. et direx.’ Granite. Saxon style. Tall tapered shaft. Dedication to Bede and Eadfrith, and extracts from Bede’s writing, on W. Interlace pattern and low-relief carved scenes from Bede’s life on E. Vine pattern and northern saints, with runic inscription, on N. Inhabited vine and inscription in uncials on S. Hodges was the excavator of Hexham Abbey. A later inscription records that the cross was removed in 1914 and restored to this site in 1921.