Cædmon's Cross, Whitby

Cædmon's Cross, St Mary's Churchyard, Whitby, North Yorkshire.
This memorial to Cædmon (c 657–680), an Anglo-Saxon Christian monk and the earliest named English poet, was erected in 1898.
The inscription reads, "To the glory of God and in memory of Cædmon the father of English Sacred Song. Fell asleep hard by, 680."