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Object type: Stoup
Measurements:
H. 21 cm (8.25 in); W. 34 > 27 cm (13.4 > 10.6 in); D. 29 > 18 cm (11.4 > 7 in)
Hollow in top: Diameter 23 cm (9 in); D. 4 cm (1.6 in)
Stone type: Medium-grained red sandstone (St Bees sandstone)
Plate numbers in printed volume: 602 - 5
Corpus volume reference: Vol 2 p. 161
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A (broad): under the deep flat-band moulding the stone steps in to form a more rounded moulding with a sharply cut groove below. The lower face is broken away.
B (narrow): The mouldings continue in the same form as on A.
C (broad): Plain and roughly chipped; some trace of diagonal tooling.
D (narrow): Smooth and diagonally tooled.
Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date).
Although there is mention of the discovery of a stoup amongst the fragments recovered from the site of the submerged church in 1913 (Gordon 1914, 335–6) the description of it does not seem to match this one, since the author states that the whole of one side had been broken away. This piece has obviously been set close to a wall, perhaps in a corner. The mouldings are a possible type for the pre-Conquest period, as for example the base from Walton, Yorkshire (Collingwood 1927a, fig. 65).
