The Corpus: Leek 5b

Volume 13: Derbyshire and Staffordshire

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Current Display: Leek 5b, Staffordshire

Overview

Object type: Cross-arm (missing)

Measurements: Unobtainable; approximately 27 x 13 cm (10.5 x 5 in), based on Sleigh's drawing

Stone type: Unobtainable, but as Leek 5a

Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 581

Corpus volume reference: Vol 13 p. 301

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Present Location

Lost

Evidence for Discovery

See Leek 5a. This cross-arm fragment was exhibited, along with the rest of the cross-head (5a), at the meeting of the British Archaeological Association at Wolverhampton in 1872 ((—) 1873, 320–1), but although a drawing was included in Sleigh's second edition of his History of Leek in 1883, the first edition of which had been published in 1862, the piece seems to have 'disappeared' following its display in 1872.

Church Dedication

St Edward the Confessor

Present Condition

Unknown

Description

Illustrated as an outline drawing showing the arm decorated as those of Leek 5aA, with a simple interlace pattern arranged as a trefoil motif with V-bend terminals.

Discussion

See Leek 5a.

Date

As Leek 5a

References

(—) 1873, 320–1; Sleigh 1883, pl. XIV; Pape 1946–7, 42–3

J.H.

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