The Corpus: Saffron Walden 02

Volume 4: South-East England

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Current Display: Saffron Walden 02, Essex

Overview

Object type: Cross-shaft fragment

Measurements: H. 62 cm (24.4 in) (W. 24.5 cm (9.7 in); D. Built in

Stone type: Pale grey, medium- to coarse-grained, shelly, oolitic limestone; Barnack stone, Lincolnshire Limestone Formation, Inferior Oolite Group, Middle Jurassic

Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 372-3

Corpus volume reference: Vol 4 p. 236

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Present Location

Built into north chimney stack of Walden House, West Grinstead, Sussex, outside (TQ 189225)

Evidence for Discovery

Discovered during demolition of The Close House (built 1554), which originally stood near Saffron Walden church; moved to present location when house re-erected there in 1934

Church Dedication

St Mary

Present Condition

Broken and worn

Description

Part of a tapering shaft of square section.

A: Within plain relief edge-mouldings, the shaft is decorated with groups of concentric semicircular plain mouldings of half-round section. The outer element of each group unites with those of its neighbours, and each group delimits a recessed flat field.

D: Apparently plain.

Discussion

See Saffron Walden no. 1.

Date

Eleventh century

References

( --- ) 1934, 10, col. 2; ( --- ) 1936, 5, col. 1; Tweddle 1986b, i, 95, 248, ii, 454, iii, pl. 82b

D.T.

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