Built as an angle quoin into the north-east corner of the nave, inside.

None. First mentioned in Innocent 1910, 93.

St John the Baptist

Tool marks over most of the surface may relate to keying for plaster in its reuse rather than to its original manufacture. It is incomplete at the top, and much damaged on the left side so that the surviving carved area is also incomplete in width.

Part of a cross-shaft. The lower part is plain. There is a roll moulding on the right, double to the bottom of the carved area, continuing as a single, wide moulding below to the bottom of the face. A narrower single moulding survives on the left below the carved area, but has been lost through damage to the side and above.

A (broad): The top of the face is now plain and probably was originally, but tooling probably for plaster may have eliminated earlier features. Below, an incised frame outlines a square panel. The panel is divided into two registers. (i) Two squares divided vertically by an incised line, in each of which a diagonal cross is formed by gouged semi-circles (Ds), one based on each side of the square. The left-hand square is incomplete. (ii) Two squares divided vertically by an incised line, in each of which a larger, cruder, gouged semi-circle (D) is based on each vertical side of the square. The hacking is extremely crude. Below, the shaft seems always to have been plain. All other faces are built into the wall.

This fragment has been compared to Cawthorne, nos. 1 to 4 (Ills. 139–50), and to the shaft from Ecclesfield (Ill. 247). The spaces between the Ds are more rounded, however. See also Chap. V (p. 49).

Probably eleventh century

Innocent 1910, 93; Collingwood 1912, 121, 130; Collingwood 1915a, 231, 271, fig. on 219; Innocent 1914–19a, 248; Collingwood 1927, 179, fig. 112; Collingwood 1929, 57, and fig.; Elgee and Elgee 1933, 222; Ryder 1982, 95, 115, 125, fig. on 115; Sidebottom 1994, 81–2, 85–7, 262, and pl.; Sidebottom 1997, 50, 51, fig. 3

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