Volume 6: Northern Yorkshire
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Current Display: Upleatham 03 (old church), Yorkshire North Riding
Overview
Object type: Cross-arm fragment [1]
Measurements: H. 21 cm (8.25 in) W. 18.5 cm (7.25 in) D. 12 cm (4.75 in)
Stone type: Local dark buff freestone' (ibid.)
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 827–30
Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 215-216
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Present Location
Unknown. 'In the old church' in 1911 (Collingwood 1911, 301), and still there in the 1930s when it was photographed by Walters (1936, 6). 'A trefoiled Decorated niche with shields in the corners has been built into the east wall; a fragment of richly carved stone standing in it is the right arm of an Anglian cross' (Pontefract and Hartley [1936], 125). Noted in parentheses but not seen by Pevsner (1966). Said to be missing in 1986, according to the records of the Cleveland County Archaeology Churches Survey (Tees Archaeology S.M.R., 0511). Possibly the fragment loaned to Middlesbrough College of Art in the 1960s which is now lost; see Upleatham 8 (old church, St Andrew) in Appendix C (p. 300).
Evidence for Discovery
None. The old church was abandoned in 1836, though burials continued in the churchyard (Ord 1846, 349). Presumably the fragment noted in 1885 by Bishop G. F. Browne, although this is listed as 'fr. of cr. sh.' (Allen and Browne 1885, 352).
Church Dedication
St Andrew
Present Condition
Unobtainable, but apparently very worn when drawn by Collingwood and photographed by Walters
Description
(after Collingwood 1911)
One arm of a cross, type A10, with the faint survival of a 'lorgnette' motif on one broad face and tangled interlace on the other. On the end of the arm a close-knit ring knot.
Discussion
This piece seems to be late in the 'lorgnette' group (see Chapter VI), as indicated by the ring knot.
R.C.
Date
Tenth century
References
Allen and Browne 1885, 352; Hodges 1894, 195; Collingwood 1911, 301, fig. a–c on 301; Collingwood 1912, 127; Collingwood 1913a, 172; Page, W. 1923, 413n; Collingwood 1927a, 98; Morris, J. 1931, 418; Pontefract and Hartley [1936], 125; Walters 1936, 6, 35, pl. on 6; Pevsner 1966, 377; Knight 1976, 40; Horton 1979, 338; Bailey and Cramp 1988, 31; Annis 1991, 5
Endnotes
[1] The following are general references to the Upleatham stones: Gallagher 1987, 21; Daniels 1995, 81.
