Volume 9: Cheshire and Lancashire
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Current Display: Halton (St Wilfrid) 09, Lancashire
Overview
Object type: Fragment [1]
Measurements: H. 24.5 cm (9.5 in); W. 13 cm (5 in); D. 24.5 > 23 cm (9.5 > 9 in)
Stone type: Not accessed
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 464, 499
Corpus volume reference: Vol 9 p. 193
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Present Location
Set below Halton (St Wilfrid) 2 as part of a composite cross erected in 1890/91 (Calverley 1899a, 184). See Fig. 20 and Ill. 464.
Evidence for Discovery
Found in the churchyard wall in c. 1890 (ibid., 184, 185).
Church Dedication
St Wilfrid
Present Condition
Decoration only survives on the west face, and even here the stone does not pass across the whole of the reconstructed shaft. The south and east faces are visible but have been re-cut so that any ornament has been removed.
Description
Only one face now survives.
A (broad, west): The surviving fragment of decoration shows the head and shoulders of a forward-facing haloed figure set beneath an arch. A moulding runs round the shoulder of the figure ('Halton outline moulding' — see below). The right-hand side of the arch is bordered by a cabled moulding which extends above this scene to the top of the surviving stone. The arch is itself topped by a narrow horizontal border carrying traces of pellets.
Discussion
Like most Halton pieces this carving has a cabled moulding, arched frame and pelleted border. The 'Halton outline moulding' to the figure recurs on nos. 2, 3 and 5 and represents wings (see discussion of Halton (St Wilfrid) 2, p. 184).
Date
Possibly ninth century
References
Calverley 1899a, 184, 185; Garstang 1906, 266, pl. facing 266; Taylor, H. 1906, 371, pl. facing 370; Collingwood 1927a, 73; Taylor, H. M. 1970d, 287; Edwards, B. 1978a, 61
Endnotes
[1] The following are general references to the Halton stones: Allen 1894, 4, 8; Taylor, H. 1898, 42; Ditchfield 1909, 118–19; Curwen 1925, 30; Fellows-Jensen 1985, 402, 405; Noble 1999, 16; Blair 2005, 216, 309, 310, 463; Newman, R. M. 2006, 102. The following are unpublished manuscript references: BL Add. MS 37550, items 602–13, 735; BL Add. MS 37551, items 66–71; Manchester Public Library, Hibbert Ware S. MSS: Msf 091 H21, vol. 5, 38; ibid., vol. 6, 40.
