The Corpus: St Bees 05

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

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Current Display: St Bees 05, Cumberland

Overview

Object type: Fragment of cross-shaft

Measurements: H. 14 cm (5.5 in); W. 17.5 cm (7 in); D. 10 cm (4 in)

Stone type: Unobtainable

Plate numbers in printed volume: 548 - 9

Corpus volume reference: Vol 2 p. 147

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Present Location

Lost

Evidence for Discovery

Discovered in church walling, claimed to be of Norman period, before 1876 (Knowles 1878, 95, 97)

Church Dedication

St Bega

Present Condition

Unobtainable

Description

Knowles's drawing shows two adjacent faces of a cross-shaft with a plain roll moulding between them.

A (broad): Spiral-scroll with, possibly, a single detached leaf.

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

Discussion

Spiral-scroll school (Introduction, pp. 33–8). The ornament on face D can be compared to St Bees 3 and Distington 1.

Date

Tenth to eleventh century

References

Knowles 1878, 95, 97, fig. XXXVII; Knowles 1880, 144; Allen 1885, 354; Calverley 1899a, 263, fig. on 262; Collingwood 1923c, 260; Bailey 1974a, I, 47–80, II, 231, fig.

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