The Corpus: Kirby Hill 04

Volume 6: Northern Yorkshire

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Current Display: Kirby Hill 04, Yorkshire North Riding

Overview

Object type: Shaft fragment [1] [2]

Measurements: H. c. 73 cm (28.7 in) W. c. 41 cm (16.1 in) D. Built in

Stone type: Very coarse feldspathic Millstone Grit; brownish yellow (10YR 6/6). Stone provenance as no. 1

Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 354

Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 131

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Present Location

Built into the south face of the north wall of the nave in the westernmost spandrel, on its side

Evidence for Discovery

Found during the 1870 restoration and left in situ (Rowe 1870, 241)

Church Dedication

All Saints

Present Condition

One face visible; worn

Description

A (broad) : Broken on the upper right-hand side. On the left-hand side is a rough edge moulding which contains confused twist and 'belated scrolls' in a modelled strand. The lower part is undecorated.

Discussion

The design is free-hand and disorganised. 'Belated scrolls' were considered by Kendrick to be late (1949, 65). Compare no. 5.

Date

Tenth to eleventh century

References

Rowe 1870, 241, fig. 10; Allen 1891, 170 (6); Stapleton 1923, 10

Endnotes

[1] The following are general references to the Kirby Hill stones: Lunn [1867], 13; Allen and Browne 1885, 353; Allen 1890, 293; Bulmer 1890, 734; Hodges 1894, 195, 201; Morris, J. 1904, 212, 420; Thompson 1908, 113; Stapleton 1923, 7, 10, 53; Morris, J. 1931, 212, 417; Pontefract and Hartley [1936], 126; Mee 1941, 125; Taylor and Taylor 1965, I, 355; Pevsner 1966, 210; Morris, R. 1989, 161; Muir 1997, 96–7.

[2] The following is an unpublished manuscript reference to no. 4: BL Add. MS 37552 no. XIV, item 629 (Romilly Allen collection).