The Corpus: Winchester (Old Minster) 11

Volume 4: South-East England

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Current Display: Winchester (Old Minster) 11, Hampshire

Overview

Object type: Fragment of lathe-turned column or baluster

Measurements: H. 19 > 4 cm (7.5 > 1.6 in); W. 13 > 1 cm (5.1 > 0.4 in); D. 5.8 > 3 cm (2.3 > 1.2 in)

Stone type: Pale yellowish-grey, medium-grained, shelly, oolitic limestone, with some pellets of 0.6 mm diameter, 1 mm long; Combe Down Oolite, Great Oolite Formation of the Bath area, Great Oolite Group, Middle Jurassic

Plate numbers in printed volume: Fig. 40; Ill. 535

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 414

Evidence for Discovery

Found in archaeological excavation north of Winchester cathedral in 1966 in robbing fill of Anglo-Saxon monolithic coffin, G.155; Final Phase 83 (Provisional Phase 1524), mid sixteenth- to late seventeenth-century

Church Dedication

Old Minster

Present Condition

No bed face survives; the carved surface is battered.

Description

Column diameter 38 cm (14.9 in). A shallow horizontal tripartite moulding, 4.3 cm wide, forms a band in which the central element is the highest. About 6.3 cm below this there are slightly marked horizontal lines, probably from the lathe turning.

Discussion

The drum probably came from the tenth-century westwork of Old Minster.

Date

Late tenth century

References

Biddle and Kjølbye-Biddle forthcoming a, fig. 141, no. 8

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

Endnotes