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Object type: Fragment of cross-shaft or impost [1]
Measurements: H./L. 42 cm (16.5 in); W. 14.5 cm (5.75 in); D. Built in
Stone type: Coarse-grained, brownish-yellow (10YR 6/8) sandstone; see no. 1; from North Yorkshire Moors
Plate numbers in printed volume: 510
Corpus volume reference: Vol 3 p. 153-154
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B (narrow): If this is a shaft fragment, then the visible face is the narrow side. There is no taper and the panel is terminated at the left-hand end. A plain edge moulding surrounds the panel, slightly wider at the end. The panel contains two registers and traces of a third of surrounded alternating half pattern C, using lightly modelled strands. The interlace apparently ended in a bar terminal.
It is possible that the piece might have served as an impost, like the fragments built into the north transept of Ripon Minster, West Riding. The similarity of the interlace to Stonegrave 2 (Ills. 824, 828) suggests that it is indeed a shaft, perhaps by the same hand. Adcock comments that the roots of the pattern are early (1974, I, 126–8).
