Govan Old Parish Church
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Govan Old Parish Church is a former parish church serving Govan in Glasgow from the 5th or 6th century AD until 2007. In that year, the Church of Scotland united the two Govan congregations with Linth
Govan Old Parish Church
The Govan hogbacks
Govan Old Church
Hogback (sculpture)
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Hogbacks are stone carved Anglo-Scandinavian style sculptures from 10th- to 12th-century northern England and south-west Scotland. Singular hogbacks were found in Ireland and Wales. Hogbacks fell out
Govan Old Parish Church
…come from the churchyard and include the Govan Sarcophagus, four upstanding crosses with figurative and interlace decoration, five Anglo-Scandinavian hogbacks, and a wide range of recumbent burial monuments, all seemingly dating to the 9th–11th centuries AD. It is believed that the site's earliest Christian…
A hogback in Dalserf Churchyard in South Lanarkshire, Scotland; the stone was found on the site in 1897. The patterned carvings are thought to represent wooden roof shingles.
Hogbacks conserved in St Mary's Church, Gosforth, Cumbria
Hogbacks outside St Andrew's Church in Penrith, Cumbria.
Lanivet Coped Stone, Cornwall