The Corpus: Winchester (Old Minster) 10

Volume 4: South-East England

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Current Display: Winchester (Old Minster) 10, Hampshire

Overview

Object type: Fragment of lathe-turned column or baluster

Measurements: H. 14.5 > 5 cm (5.7 > 2 in); W. 16 > 5 cm (6.3 > 2 in); D. 4.5 > 0.5 cm (1.8 > 0.2 in)

Stone type: Pale greyish-yellow, medium- to coarse-grained, oolitic limestone, with a prominent calcite veinlet; Combe Down Oolite, Great Oolite Formation of the Bath area, Great Oolite Group, Middle Jurassic

Plate numbers in printed volume: Fig. 40; Ills. 533-4

Corpus volume reference: Vol 4 p. 282

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Present Location

Winchester City Museum, Historic Resources Centre, Hyde House, Winchester, accessions no. 2943 WS 3

Evidence for Discovery

Found in archaeological excavation north of Winchester cathedral in 1964 in demolition rubble derived from nave of Old Minster; Final Phase 60-70 (Provisional Phase 931), late eleventh- to late twelfth-century

Church Dedication

Old Minster

Present Condition

Part of one bed face survives; the carved surface is somewhat battered.

Description

Reconstructed column diameter 38 cm (15 in). A rounded tripartite stepped moulding, 4 cm wide, projects about 1.5 cm, with a central rounded band, 2 cm wide, a sharper lower, and a rounder upper band.

Discussion

The drum was probably made for the remodelling of the nave of Old Minster, completed c. 993–4.

Date

Late tenth century

References

Biddle and Kjølbye-Biddle forthcoming a, fig. 141, no. 7

M.B.; B.K.-B.

Endnotes