The Corpus: Winchester (Old Minster) 18

Volume 4: South-East England

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Current Display: Winchester (Old Minster) 18, Hampshire

Overview

Object type: Fragment of lathe-turned base

Measurements: H. 18.8 > 16 cm (7.4 > 6.3 in); W. 15 > 7 cm (5.9 > 2.8 in); D. 14 > 7 cm (5.5 > 2.8 in)

Stone type: Whitish-grey, medium- to coarse-grained, shelly, oolitic limestone, apparently 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. 516

Corpus volume reference: Vol 4 p. 285

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Present Location

Winchester City Museum, Historic Resources Centre, Hyde House, Winchester, accessions no. 2943 WS 455

Evidence for Discovery

Unstratified; found lying in external western bay, north of Winchester cathedral, in 1967. Probably derived from west end of Old Minster

Church Dedication

Old Minster

Present Condition

One bed face survives; the carved surface is fairly well preserved.

Description

Reconstructed diameter at bed face, 46 cm (18.1 in). The moulding is quite elaborate: starting 10 cm from the bottom there is a twice repeated pattern of narrow and wide shallow bands.

Discussion

This column probably comes from the late tenth- century west end of Old Minster.

Date

Late tenth century

References

Biddle and Kjølbye-Biddle forthcoming a, fig. 141, no. 16

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

Endnotes