The Corpus: Wath 03

Volume 6: Northern Yorkshire

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Current Display: Wath 03, Yorkshire North Riding

Overview

Object type: Shaft fragment [1]

Measurements: H. 29 cm (11.4 in) W. 40 cm (15.7 in) D. Built in

Stone type: Fine-grained deltaic sandstone, with sub-angular grains; the stone is a brownish yellow colour (10YR 6/6). Deltaic sandstone from the Middle Jurassic (Saltwick Formation, Aalenian) of the North York Moors area

Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 848–50

Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 218

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Present Location

Built into the interior north wall of the organ chamber, behind the jamb of the screen door

Evidence for Discovery

See Wath 1 (St Mary)

Church Dedication

St Mary

Present Condition

Very worn and damaged; one face visible, though partly hidden

Description

No edge mouldings survive. The whole panel is filled with basket plait in very broad strand (2 inches wide). Some of the spaces are filled with irregular pellets.

Discussion

This is a primitive piece, its interlace executed in free-hand. Such dense weave suggests an Anglo-Scandinavian milieu.

Date

Late ninth to mid tenth century

References

Lukis 1875–6, 75, fig. facing; Collingwood 1907, 271, 286, 407, fig. d on 406; McCall 1910, 142–3; Collingwood 1912, 127; Collingwood 1927a, 179; Pevsner 1966, 378

Endnotes

[1] The following are general references to the Wath stones: Macquoid 1883, 230; Gregson 1893, 287; Bulmer 1890, 845; Bogg [1895], 306; (—) 1896–1905d, cxliii; Morris, J. 1904, 389, 420; McCall 1910, 138, 142; Page, W. 1914, 394, 395; Morris, J. 1931, 388, 417. The following is an unpublished manuscript reference to the Wath stones: BL Add. MS 37552 no. XIV, item 806 (Romilly Allen collection).