The Corpus: Whalley 06

Volume 9: Cheshire and Lancashire

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Current Display: Whalley 06, Lancashire

Overview

Object type: Fragment of shaft [1]

Measurements: H. 34 cm (13.5 in); W. 13 cm (5 in); D. Built in

Stone type: Greyish orange pink (5YR 7/2), poorly sorted, clast-supported, medium- (0.4 mm) to granular (4.0 mm), but mostly coarse-grained between 0.5 and 1.0 mm, quartz sandstone. The clasts vary from sub-angular to sub-rounded. Millstone Grit, Carboniferous

Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 683-5

Corpus volume reference: Vol 9 p. 249-50

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Present Location

Set in external south wall between the porch and the first window to the east, at a height of 2.37 m (7 ft 9 in), behind the down-pipe.

Evidence for Discovery

Probably to be identified with one of the fragments 'in the wall of the south aisle, outside, just to the east of the porch' listed by Wallis (1921, 11).

Church Dedication

St Mary

Present Condition

Very worn

Description

The shaft is now set horizontally. There is a curved flat moulding in the upper right corner with, below, a row of vertical pellets. To the left are traces of decoration.

Discussion

The fragment appears to represent the upper part of a shaft with part of the curve of the lower cross-head. Its decorative scheme, with pellets along the border, resembles that of Whalley 4 and 5 (Ills. 679–81, 682).

Date

Uncertain

References

Wallis 1921, 11; Edwards, B. 1989b, 34

Endnotes

[1]. The following are general references to the Whalley stones: Whitaker 1800–1, 31–2, 33, 37, 297; Whitaker 1818, 49–51, 250; Baines 1831–6, III, 178–9, 383; Baines 1868–70, II, 8; Whitaker 1872–6, I, 69, 71, II, 15, 157, 557, pl. facing 1; Croston 1884a, 4–5; Croston 1884b, 3; (–––) 1885b, 228; Allen and Browne 1885, 355; Browne 1885b, 156–7; Browne 1887a, 12–14; Jackson 1889, 34; Glynne 1893, 79; Harrison 1896, 4; Howarth 1899, 9; Farrer and Brownbill 1911c, 355; Fishwick and Ditchfield 1909, I, 5; Wallis 1921; Brown, G. 1937, 274; Tupling 1948, 6, 8; Edwards, B. 1975; Edwards, B. 1978a, 72–5; Fellows-Jensen 1985, 407; Edwards, B. 1992, 58; Panikkar 1994, 20; Crosby 1998, 30; Noble 2004, 75–81.

The following are unpublished manuscript references: BL Add. MS 37550, items 724–35; BL Add. MS 37551, items 76–9; Lancashire Record Office, DP 291/61–62 and 292/1; Lancashire Record Office DP 386/8.