The Corpus: Winchester (Old Minster) 24

Volume 4: South-East England

Select a site alphabetically from the choices shown in the box below. Alternatively, browse sculptural examples using the Forward/Back buttons.

Chapters for this volume, along with copies of original in-text images, are available here.

Current Display: Winchester (Old Minster) 24, Hampshire

Overview

Object type: Fragment of lathe-turned column or baluster

Measurements: H. 25 > 18 cm (9.8 > 7 in); W. 27 > 2 cm (10.6 > 0.8 in); D. 23 > 10 cm (9 > 3.9 in)

Stone type: Yellowish-grey, medium-grained, oolitic limestone, with a calcite veinlet; Combe Down Oolite, Great Oolite Formation of the Bath area, Great Oolite Group, Middle Jurassic

Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 542-543

Corpus volume reference: Vol 4 p. 287

(There may be more views or larger images available for this item. Click on the thumbnail image to view.)

Present Location

Winchester City Museum, Historic Resources Centre, Hyde House, Winchester, accessions no. 2943 WS 57

Evidence for Discovery

See no. 21.

Church Dedication

Old Minster

Present Condition

One bed face, F (bottom), survives; the carved surface is battered, and partly cut away by a diagonally-tooled right-angled cut.

Description

Reconstructed diameter 44 cm (17.3 in). A round hole (diameter 5 cm (2 in)) has been drilled off-centre vertically through the drum. A shallow, slightly concave, moulding extending horizontally around the drum, and fainter horizontal traces below, show that this piece has been lathe-turned.

Discussion

This column drum probably comes from the tenth-century east end, but cannot be dated within the Anglo-Saxon period.

Date

Late tenth century or earlier

References

Biddle and Kjølbye-Biddle forthcoming a, fig. 143, no. 24

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

Endnotes