Volume 6: Northern Yorkshire

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Current Display: Hauxwell 02, Yorkshire North Riding Forward button Back button
Overview
Present Location
On the exterior north wall, serving as a lintel over a blocked doorway with early Romanesque capitals
Evidence for Discovery
None; noted by Sir Stephen Glynne in 1871 (Glynne 1922)
Church Dedication
St Oswald
Present Condition
Heavily weathered
Description

Only one face retains carving, a narrow side; other faces are plain or built in.

A narrow plain edge moulding survives on the lower edge. The panel contains degenerate interlace in a flat broad strand. It is closely knit, with adjacent lying strands.

Discussion

This is rough work and its decoration appears rustic and unplanned.

Date
Tenth to eleventh century
References
Collingwood 1907, 269, 271, 276, 330, fig. e on 331; Collingwood 1912, 114, 124; Page, W. 1914, 250; Collingwood 1915, 266; Glynne 1922, 276–7; Morris, J. 1931, 179 (3); Pontefract and Hartley [1936], 135; Mee 1941, 104; Pevsner 1966, 183; Hatcher 1990, 249
Endnotes
None

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