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Object type: Architectural fragment
Measurements: Unobtainable
Stone type: Unobtainable
Plate numbers in printed volume: Pl. 238.1345-1346
Corpus volume reference: Vol 1 p. 241
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Probably part of a block capital with carving on two faces and two faces broken. Top flat and smoothly dressed. Each face apparently edged with a flat-band moulding, the horizontal being the wider.
A: Part of a profile animal with sinuous body and head bent back. Its jaws appear to be elongated and to form a large oval loop above its back. What may be a front leg also loops behind its body.
B: Part of the body of a large ribbon animal deeply carved and modelled. Its body forms a circular loop and there is a smaller stirrup-like loop behind its haunches.
C and D: Broken away.
Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date).
This little known piece was first published by Craster (1914, fig. 7), as a fragment of an Anglian memorial cross. Strictly speaking, there is nothing Anglian in this animal ornament and it almost certainly belongs to the Romanesque church of Corbridge. However the organization of the animal bodies and the type of backward-looking profile animal are reminiscent of the Urnes style of Scandinavian ornament. This piece should perhaps take its place among the select group of Urnes-Romanesque carvings from the British Isles.
