The Corpus: Sinnington 21

Volume 3: York and Eastern Yorkshire

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Current Display: Sinnington 21, Eastern Yorkshire

Overview

Object type: Architectural feature(?) (sundial) [1]

Measurements: Unobtainable

Stone type: Unobtainable

Plate numbers in printed volume: 908

Corpus volume reference: Vol 3 p. 229

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Present Location

Lost, or worn away

Evidence for Discovery

First recorded by Frank (1888, 154); perhaps the dial recorded by Collingwood (1907, 386, no. 5) 'built in at the west end'

Church Dedication

All Saints

Present Condition

Unobtainable

Description

'. . . a dial, with no rays, but with twenty four drill-holes all round the central gnomon-hole' (Collingwood 1907, 386, no. 5). In 1888 Frank wrote: 'It had an inscription, of which I can only distinguish faintly "MERGEN ÆFERN" '.

Discussion

Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date).

There is little evidence upon which to base comment. The position of the drill-holes suggests a circular design and the supposed inscription points to a pre-Conquest date. By 1928 the dial had disappeared (Green 1928, 515).

Date

Probably early eleventh century

References

Haigh 1879, 159, fig. facing 135; Taylor 1881, 148; Frank 1888, 154; Gatty 1900, 59; Collingwood 1907, 386, no. 5; Green 1928, 515; Morris 1931, 348–9; Zinner 1964, 183; Okasha 1969; 28; Okasha 1971, 113, no. 108

Endnotes

1. The following is a general reference to the Sinnington stones: Allen and Browne 1885, 353.