The Corpus: Kildwick 7

Volume 8: Western Yorkshire

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Current Display: Kildwick 7, West Riding of Yorkshire

Overview

Object type: Fragment of cross-arm [1]

Measurements: (after Collingwood 1915a) H. 18 cm (7 in); W. 19 cm (7.5 in); D. 10 cm (4 in)

Stone type: Not recorded

Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 414-5

Corpus volume reference: Vol 8 p. 181

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Present Location

Lost

Evidence for Discovery

See Kildwick 1

Church Dedication

St Andrew

Present Condition

Unknown

Description

One incomplete arm of a free-armed cross-head of type A10, edged by a flat moulding.

A (broad): The face has an pseudo-interlace formed from two loops, which possibly linked to further ornament on adjacent arms, but may actually have been formed from two linked closed ovals.

B and D (narrow): No surviving illustration

C (broad): The photograph in Brigg (1908, 170, no. 7) shows it was similar to face A.

Discussion

The form of the head implies an adherence to Anglian tradition, but the large-scale and rather basic pattern element is clearly the simplification of early interlace designs fashionable in the Anglo-Scandinavian period.

Date

Tenth century

References

Collingwood 1908, 171, no. 7, pls. on 170; Collingwood 1912, 130; Collingwood 1915a, 197, fig. a on 198; Collingwood 1927, 151, fig. 174a; Bailey and Cramp 1988, 83

Endnotes

[1] The following are general references to the Kildwick stones: Brigg 1908, 165–7; Morris 1911, 285; Collingwood 1915b, 334; Pontefract and Hartley [1936], 20; Mee 1941, 206–7; Pevsner 1959, 283–4; Faull 1981, 218; Faull 1986b, 29, 33, 36, 40, pl. VII.