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Object type: Fragment of cross-shaft [1]
Measurements: H. 22.5 cm (8.9 in); W. 29.5 cm (11.6 in); D. Built in
Stone type: Soft, fine-grained, decalcified, pale brown (10YR 8/4) sandstone; see no. 1.
Plate numbers in printed volume: 430
Corpus volume reference: Vol 3 p. 127
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Only one face is visible.
A (?broad): On the right-hand edge is a slender flat moulding. Within the panel are two adjacent portrait busts. Of the pair the left-hand is more obscure, the shoulders and one side of the face only surviving in relief outline. There is a pellet filler over the shoulder. On the chest is a pendant or fastening. The arm is angular. The right-hand figure has a skull-like head with incised facial features, the eyes and nose in a continuous line, the mouth a horizontal slit. A cape covers the shoulders and on the chest is a diamond shaped fastening or pendant. Between the heads is a pierced pendant diamond element.
Many of the Ryedale monuments indulge in secular portraiture: for example, Old Malton 1, Middleton 2, 4, and 5, and Kirkbymoorside 1. This is crude work, unlike the Old Malton portrait, and is likely to be a copy of the pair of Evangelists at Newburgh Priory, North Riding, as the pendant between the heads indicates (Pevsner 1966, 264, pl. 9a). It is unusual for a shaft to have paired busts within a panel in this area.
