The Corpus: Winchester (Old Minster) 17

Volume 4: South-East England

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Current Display: Winchester (Old Minster) 17, Hampshire

Overview

Object type: Fragment of lathe-turned column or base

Measurements: H. 17.8 > 10 cm (7.0 > 3.9 in); W. 25.6 > 19 cm (10.1 > 7.5 in); D. 10 > 3.5 cm (3.9 > 1.8 in)

Stone type: Greyish-white, medium- to coarse-grained, shelly, oolitic limestone, with a calcite veinlet, and end-bedded; Combe Down Oolite, Great Oolite Formation of the Bath area, Great Oolite Group, Middle Jurassic

Plate numbers in printed volume: Fig. 40; Ill. 515

Corpus volume reference: Vol 4 p. 284

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Present Location

Winchester City Museum, Historic Resources Centre, Hyde House, Winchester, accessions no. 2943 WS 29

Evidence for Discovery

Found in archaeological excavation north of Winchester cathedral in 1965 in rubble from destruction of tenth-century east apse of Old Minster; Final Phase 59 (Provisional Phase 691), c. 1093-4

Church Dedication

Old Minster

Present Condition

One bed face survives; the carved surface is battered.

Description

Reconstructed diameter at bed face 51.2 cm (20.2 in). The moulding is composed of a tripartite band, 5.5 cm wide. The slightly hollowed middle band is 3 cm wide.

Discussion

This column probably derives from the late tenth-century eastern apse of Old Minster.

Date

Late tenth century

References

Biddle and Kjølbye-Biddle forthcoming a, fig. 141, no. 15

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

Endnotes