Volume 4: South-East England
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Current Display: Winchester (Old Minster) 22, Hampshire 
Overview
Object type: Capital and shaft of engaged colonnette
Measurements: H. 20.5 > 5.5 cm (8.1 > 2.1 in); W. 17.4 > 5 cm (7 > 2 in); D. 31.5 > 30.5 cm (12.4 > 12 in)
Stone type: Combe Down Oolite, Great Oolite Formation of the Bath area, Great Oolite Group, Middle Jurassic
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 536-537
Corpus volume reference: Vol 4 p. 286
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Present Location
Winchester City Museum, Historic Resources Centre, Hyde House, Winchester, accessions no. 2943 WS 63
Evidence for Discovery
See no. 21.
Church Dedication
Old Minster
Present Condition
One bed face survives; the surfaces are battered.
Description
Reconstructed diameter of column 9 cm (3.5 in). The colonnette was part of a decorative scheme projecting 15.8 cm (6.2 in) from the wall-face.
Discussion
This architectural fragment probably comes from the tenth-century east end. But the capital (surviving height 15.5 cm (6 in)) is almost of cushion type and seems late.
Date
Late tenth or early eleventh century
References
Biddle and Kjølbye-Biddle forthcoming a, fig. 142, no. 22
M.B.; B.K.-B.
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