Volume 6: Northern Yorkshire

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Current Display: Newton Under Roseberry 01, Yorkshire North Riding Forward button Back button
Overview
Present Location
Evidence for Discovery
Church Dedication
St Oswald
Present Condition
Description

Carved stone found 1827, now built into south-west corner of east buttress of tower, showing two confronted animals in flat relief, one winged with a long tail, the other a quadruped, and another winged creature on the adjacent face; possible impost, late eleventh or early twelfth century.

Discussion

Appendix B item (stones wrongly associated with pre-Conquest period). [1]

Date
References
Ord 1846, 144, fig. 1; (—) 1890–5c, lxxxix; Morris, J. 1904, 276; Collingwood 1907, 268; Page, W. 1923, 276; Morris, J. 1931, 277; Mee 1941, 167; Zarnecki 1955, 27, pl. 13; Pevsner 1966, 268; Brown, M. 1979, 44; Horton 1979, 307; Binns 1995, 264; Daniels 1995, 81
Endnotes
[1] All these entries are by D.C., except where noted.

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