The Corpus: Winchester (Old Minster) 30

Volume 4: South-East England

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Current Display: Winchester (Old Minster) 30, Hampshire

Overview

Object type: Fragment of capital(?)

Measurements: H. 10 > 4.5 cm (3.9 > 1.8 in); W. 14 > 4.5 cm (5.5 > 1.8 in); D. 7 > 6 cm (2.8 > 2.4 in)

Stone type: Pale yellowish-grey, medium- to coarse-grained, oolitic limestone with a 7 mm-diameter contemporary burrow; Combe Down Oolite, Great Oolite Formation of the Bath area, Great Oolite Group, Middle Jurassic

Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 549-551

Corpus volume reference: Vol 4 p. 289

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Present Location

Winchester City Museum, Historic Resources Centre, Hyde House, Winchester, accessions no. 2943 WS 107

Evidence for Discovery

Found in archaeological excavation north of Winchester cathedral in 1965 in rubble deriving from tenth-century east apse of Old Minster; Final Phase 56-63 (Provisional Phase 724), late eleventh- to early twelfth-century

Church Dedication

Old Minster

Present Condition

One bed face survives; the carved surface is battered.

Description

A rounded element, diameter c. 4.2 cm, curves out of an opening and folds back over.

Discussion

An incomprehensible part of a three-dimensional sculpture of very high relief.

Date

Tenth century

References

Biddle and Kjølbye-Biddle forthcoming a, fig. 144, no. 30

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

Endnotes