Volume 6: Northern Yorkshire

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Current Display: Spennithorne 03, Yorkshire North Riding Forward button Back button
Overview
Present Location
Not visible
Evidence for Discovery
Said to be built into the exterior east wall of the chancel, together with no. 1
Church Dedication
Present Condition
Unknown
Description

A stone with 'knotwork' (Pontefract and Hartley [1936]) or 'runic ornament' (Bulmer 1890).

Discussion

Appendix C item (lost stones for which no illustration has survived).

Several writers mention a second decorated stone built into the east wall. No stone in the exterior of the chancel now shows any trace of ornament other than no. 1 (p. 197, Ill. 746).

D.C.

Date
Uncertain
References
Bulmer 1890, 597; Bogg [1895], 254; Speight 1897, 352; Pontefract and Hartley [1936], 140
Endnotes
None

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