The Corpus: High Melton 1

Volume 8: Western Yorkshire

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Current Display: High Melton 1, West Riding of Yorkshire

Overview

Object type: Part of grave-cover(?) [1]

Measurements: Too high to measure

Stone type: Direct access not possible without ladders or scaffold. Based on weathering characteristics, the stone type is probably magnesian limestone, Cadeby Formation. [G.L.]

Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 818

Corpus volume reference: Vol 8 p. 278

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Present Location

Built into a window recess beside east jamb of the eastern of two windows in south aisle of chancel.

Evidence for Discovery

Morris (1911, 353) reported several pieces from this site: 'Cross-head, and fragment of a second (possibly Sax.)', built into the south interior wall of the aisle (but see Appendix B, p. 287), and on the same page, 'Fragments of crosses built into interior of porch (S.). There is also one on the S. of the chapel'. Collingwood (1915a, 218) visited the church in 1913 but noted that at the time all the walls were plastered, 'concealing any relics of this kind'. The collection comprises mostly very simple stones, and both grave-stones and architectural fragments of different dates, some very clearly thirteenth century or later (these have been omitted from the following list): a few could be earlier though none is definitively pre-Conquest.

Church Dedication

St James

Present Condition

Incomplete

Description

One end of a possible recumbent grave slab with a plain, incised Latin cross (type A1).

Discussion

Appendix A item (Stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date)

Such plain carvings are difficult to date.

Date

Probably post-Conquest

References

Unpublished

Endnotes

[1] The following are general references to the High Melton stones: Morris 1911, 353; Collingwood 1915a, 218; Morris 1923, 353, 549; Pontefract and Hartley [1936], 75; Mee 1941, 186; Ryder 1982, 93.