Set on ledge in tower of church

Found on January 24th, 1887, reused in walling on north side of arched eastern entrance leading from nave to tower (Calverley 1888c, 458)

St Michael

Good

Rectangular cross-shaft. The single incomplete panels on all four faces are bordered laterally by a flat-band moulding.

A (broad): Interlace consisting of free rings with long diagonals and outside strands. The strands are median-incised and the two halves are bound together when operating as outside strands.

B (narrow): Free rings and long diagonals, using median-incised strands.

C (broad): Interlace, a form of half pattern F with outside strand, using double-incised strands. The three sections so formed are bound together by a single strand 'tie' in the upper right-hand corner.

D (narrow): A run of Stafford knots, two complete and parts of two others.

Beckermet school (Introduction, pp. 38–40). The use of double-incised strands is found elsewhere in the school on Beckermet St John 4, Brigham 2 and Haile 2, whilst the binding motif is repeated on Beckermet St John 4, 6 and 7, and again on Haile 2. The pattern on face A is also used on Beckermet St John 6 and Haile 2, whilst the interlace on face C is a variant of the form seen on Beckermet St John 3–6; both interlace motifs are limited to the Beckermet school.

Tenth to eleventh century

Calverley 1888c, fig. facing 458; Calverley 1891c, 231, 236; Calverley 1893a, 173, fig. facing 173; Calverley 1899a, 277–9, 294, figs. facing 277; Collingwood 1901a, 257; Collingwood 1910a, 308; Collingwood 1910b, 38; Collingwood 1923c, 249; Fair 1950, 96; Pevsner 1967, 209; Bailey 1974a, I, 81–105, II, 253–4, pls.; Bailey 1980, 194, 222

1. The Historica de Sancto Cuthberto records that the wandering Cuthbert community embarked for Ireland from Deruntmuthe in the late ninth century (Symeon 1882b, 207). Workington is at the mouth of the Derwent and is probably the place referred to here.