The Corpus: Middleton 06

Volume 3: York and Eastern Yorkshire

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Current Display: Middleton 06, Eastern Yorkshire

Overview

Object type: Cross-head and part of -shaft [1]

Measurements: Unobtainable

Stone type: Apparently medium-grained sandstone; perhaps as no. 1.

Plate numbers in printed volume: 690

Corpus volume reference: Vol 3 p. 186

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Present Location

Reused as quoin high up in south face of tower, outside, abutting nave wall

Evidence for Discovery

First noted by Kendrick in unpublished card index in British Museum

Church Dedication

St Andrew

Present Condition

One cross-arm dressed off; worn

Description

The full height of the monument apparently survives.

B (narrow): The face has a flat edge moulding to the tapering shaft. The panel contains deeply incised spirals. The arm of the cross is lost but the upper limb retains a flat perimeter moulding and tapers.

A, C and D: Built in.

Discussion

From the ground it is difficult to decipher but the angular incised scrolls are reminiscent of the sculpture at Levisham, especially nos. 2 and 5 (Ills. 636; 648).

Date

Tenth century

References

Unpublished

Endnotes

1. The following are general references to the Middleton stones: Allen and Browne 1885, 353; Frank 1888, 178; Morris 1931, 264; Mee 1941a, 161; Binns 1963, 40-3, pls.; Taylor and Taylor 1965, I, 423; Sawyer 1971, 163-6, 212; Lang 1989, 2, 3-5.