The Corpus: Distington 01

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

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Current Display: Distington 01, Cumberland

Overview

Object type: Part of cross-shaft

Measurements: H. 30.5 cm (12 in); W. 30.5 cm (12 in); D. 15.5 cm (6 in)

Stone type: Medium-grained, micaceous yellow sandstone (Carboniferous)

Plate numbers in printed volume: 259 - 62

Corpus volume reference: Vol 2 p. 96

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Present Location

In church

Evidence for Discovery

Found during restoration work at church before 1889 (Calverley 1891c, 234)

Church Dedication

Holy Spirit

Present Condition

Worn and damaged

Description

Faces A and C were bordered by a roll moulding; there is no evidence for the borders of faces B and D.

A (broad): An open three-strand plain stopped-plait encloses: a boss with a drilled hole in the crown; a triskele; a recumbent S-motif. There are pellets between the border moulding and the plait.

B (narrow): The remains of an unidentifiable relief ornament.

C (broad): Traces of an open stopped-plait with pellets.

D (narrow): Angular key pattern or single-branch spiral-scroll.

Discussion

Spiral-scroll school (Introduction, pp. 33–5). The combination of open stopped-plait and single-branch spiral-scroll closely resembles St Bees 3.

Date

Tenth to eleventh century

References

Calverley 1891c, 230, 234, fig. IV; Calverley 1899a, 133–4, 297, 298, fig. facing 133; Collingwood 1901a, 259, 261; Kermode 1907, 30; Scott 1920, 95; Collingwood 1923c, 257; Collingwood 1927a, 96; Fair 1950, 96; Bailey 1974a, I, 47–80, II, 108, pls.

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