Volume 6: Northern Yorkshire

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Current Display: Stanwick 17, Yorkshire North Riding Forward button Back button
Overview
Present Location
Built into the interior south wall of the nave, west end, adjacent to no. 4
Evidence for Discovery
See Stainton 3 (St Peter and St Paul).
Church Dedication
St John the Baptist
Present Condition
Broken and worn
Description

A corner piece with a narrow L-shaped edge moulding, slightly modelled. Within the panel is a very worn feature with a volute. The cutting is picked work.

Discussion

This could be part of either a shaft or a slab. The volute motif perhaps echoes tenth-century scrolled joints, though the evidence here is meagre.

Date
Late ninth to mid tenth century
References
Unpublished
Endnotes
[1] The following are general references to the Stainton stones: Lofthouse 1896–8, 17; Morris, J. 1904, 361–2, 420; Collingwood 1908, 120; Morris, J. 1931, 362, 417; Mee 1941, 227; Brown, M. 1979, 44; Horton 1979, 159; Daniels 1995, 81.

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