The Corpus: Northallerton 04

Volume 6: Northern Yorkshire

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Current Display: Northallerton 04, Yorkshire North Riding

Overview

Object type: Upper part of shaft [1]

Measurements: H. 25.7 cm (10.1 in) W. 19.8 > 18.8 cm (7.8 > 7.4 in) D. 14.5 > 14 cm (5.7 > 5.5 in)

Stone type: As Northallerton 2 (All Saints)

Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 668–71

Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 182

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Present Location

On the sill of the north window of the north transept

Evidence for Discovery

See Northallerton 1 (All Saints)

Church Dedication

All Saints

Present Condition

The neck of a cross-shaft. Broken; scraped in places

Description

A (broad) : The modelled edge moulding is damaged but the transverse moulding and corner locking rings survive. Above this the panel in the neck tapers and contains terminal loops of closed circuit interlace in narrow modelled strand. The shaft panel has the upper two registers of four-cord plain plait in modelled median-incised strand with box point terminals and very distanced hole-points, 2 inches apart.

B (narrow) : Damaged above the transverse moulding. The edge mouldings are narrow and scraped, with corner locking rings. Within the shaft panel is the upper part of a four-cord plain plait, gridded on 1.25 inch hole-points.

C (broad) : As face A, except for the shaft panel which has six-cord plain plait in modelled strand with hole-points spaced at 1.5 inches.

D (narrow) : The locking rings and mouldings are damaged. Above is what might be the stump of a ring. Within the shaft panel is a four-cord plain plait in narrow modelled strand with hole-points spaced at 1.25 inches.

Discussion

The griding of the design is very fine indeed, typical of the Allertonshire workshop whose locking rings on the edge mouldings are virtually a trademark (see Chap. VI, pp. 44–7). Compare Brompton 3 and Kirklevington 2 (Ills. 37–40, 405–7).

Date

First half of tenth century

References

Collingwood 1907, 271, 275, 372, figs. p–q on 373; Collingwood 1912, 110, 111, 126, figs. p–q; Collingwood 1915, 281; Bailey 1980, 185

Endnotes

[1] The following are general references to the Northallerton stones: Browne 1880–4, cx, cxi; Allen and Browne 1885, 352; Saywell 1885, 5, 6, 218, 219, 222; Saywell 1886, 480–1; Bulmer 1890, 525, 526; Robinson, J. 1890, 35, fig. 9; Hodges 1894, 195; Morris, J. 1904, 280, 420; Bogg 1908, 14; Collingwood 1912, 110, pl. III; Page, W. 1914, 426, 429; Morris, J. 1931, 280, 417; Elgee and Elgee 1933, 195, 249; Mee 1941, 169; Pevsner 1966, 271; Bailey 1980, 240, 252, 255; Cambridge 1989, 382, 384, 385; Morris, R. 1989, 138; Hadley 2000, 244; Stocker 2000, 205–6. The following is an unpublished manuscript reference to the Northallerton stones: BL Add. MS 37552 no. XIV, item 702 (Romilly Allen collection).