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The road from Warden to Walwick is known as Homer’s Lane, and c 2 km north of the church a medieval wayside cross stands on the grass verge on its eastside (NGR NY68589095); it is reported to have stood midway between the lane and the River Tyne (which runs c 100 m away) and been moved into its present position c1800, when a key was found in the socket in the base stone into which the shaft is set (it issaid to have ben replaced). The base is a block 900 by 750 mm which stands 150 mm above the ground; the shaft, v 350 by 250 mm, rises 620 mm to an eroded top which has a small socket which must have taken a tenon securing a lost upper section. The front (westside) of the shaft bears the lower part of an incised sword, precisely of the type often found on cross slab grave covers. The stone seems too thick to be a re-used cross slab; it is not clear whether it was intended as an upright grave marker.