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Object type: Cross-shaft
Measurements: H. 66 cm (26 in); W. (incomplete) 16.2 > 14 cm (6.4 > 5.5 in); D. 21.7 > 21.3 cm (8.7 > 8 in)
Stone type: Coarse-grained, massive yellow sandstone
Plate numbers in printed volume: Pls. 218.1233-1235, 219.1240
Corpus volume reference: Vol 1 p. 223
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Part of the central portion of a shaft split in half. Each face is surrounded by a fine double roll moulding.
A (broad): Now split. This face appears to have been originally carved with an inhabited medallion scroll, although not enough survives to feel confident of its details (Collingwood 1927, 34, fig. 43). At the top are the remains of a knotted tendril and a triangular leaf. Below is part of a medallion scroll with what appears to be the displayed wing of a bird and possibly part of its tail. A scroll with a leaf terminal emerges from behind the wing. Collingwood's drawing of a bird upside-down does not appear to be justified. Dividing this medallion from the one below is an elaborate spiral knot with two triangular leaf terminals. The lower volute encloses a bird which is frontal and whose head is turned to bite at a leaf or fruit. The stems at the base cross and terminate in small triangular leaves.
B (narrow): Four volutes, a combination of simple and spiral scroll. Each volute encloses a well shaped triangular berry bunch. The uppermost volute sprouts a short curling tendril and is divided from the volute below by a stiff bud. The two central volutes are divided by small triangular leaves, and from each of them hangs a relatively large triangular leaf.
C (broad): Now split. It is difficult to envisage the complete design of this face, although it is convincing as Collingwood (1927, fig. 43) reconstructed it, with a tree-scroll, in which spiralling stems link bell-shaped flowers. The remains of four such flowers and three complete spirals survive.
D (narrow): Missing.
The origin of the formula with medallion scrolls on one broad face and spiral scrolls on the narrow is clearly Hexham (Introduction, p. 15; see also Simonburn 3-4). However, the development of the formula into an inhabited medallion, changing patterns from simple to spiral scrolls, and even the elaborate linked scroll on the other broad face are more closely allied with Nunnykirk. So close are the two carvings that they might even be by the same hand; certainly they are nearly contemporary in date (see Nunnykirk; Introduction, pp. 15-16).
