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Object type: Hogback
Measurements: L. 185.4 cm (73 in); W. c. 30.5 cm (12 in); D. 25.4 < 50.8 > 33 cm (10 < 20 > 13 in)
Stone type: Medium-grained red sandstone (Penrith sandstone)
Plate numbers in printed volume: 22, 25
Corpus volume reference: Vol 2 p. 49
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Hogback, type h: side A is visible from inside the church, side C from outside.
A (long): Above the curving eaves line are the remains of a single row of tegulation, type 2c. Below is a full-length curving wall panel decorated with broad three-strand plain plait. The lower part of this face was left plain.
C (long): Above the curving eaves line are the remains of two rows of tegulation, type 2c, bordered, to the right, by a plain end-panel. On the wall below are traces of a plain end-panel on the right together with (possible) spiralling scroll ornament alongside; earlier drawings show this scroll as surviving more extensively.
Band D (ends): Built in.
The tall slender proportions of this hogback are typical of those found in the north-west though the tegulation is of a type which occurs on both sides of the Pennines: at Gosforth (no. 4), and Bromfield (no. 4), as well as Burnsall, Yorkshire, and Gainford, co. Durham (Lang 1984, 124, 132). The wall ornament is unique among the scroll hogbacks in having only single panels of decoration set immediately below the eaves so as to leave an extensive area of blank wall underneath.
