The Corpus: St Bees 03

Volume 2: Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire-North-of-the-Sands

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Current Display: St Bees 03, Cumberland

Overview

Object type: Part of cross-shaft

Measurements: Unobtainable

Stone type: Unobtainable

Plate numbers in printed volume: 546 - 7

Corpus volume reference: Vol 2 p. 146

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Present Location

Lost (buried beneath south aisle of church)

Evidence for Discovery

Found before c. 1856 in church walling, claimed to be of Norman period, and subsequently accidentally reused as building material between 1864 and 1871 (Knowles 1876, 28; idem 1878, 97)

Church Dedication

St Bega

Present Condition

Unobtainable

Description

Knowles's drawing shows two adjacent faces of a cross-shaft; one side of face A and both sides of face B are framed by a roll moulding.

A (broad): Stopped-plait with pellets.

B (narrow): Single-branch spiral-scroll.

Discussion

Spiral-scroll school (Introduction, pp. 33–8). The ornamental combination is closely paralleled on Distington 1.

Date

Tenth to eleventh century

References

Knowles 1876, 28, fig. III; Knowles 1878, 97; Knowles 1880, 144; Allen 1885, 354; Bailey 1974a, I, 47–80, II, 234, fig.

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