Volume 9: Cheshire and Lancashire
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Current Display: Chester (St John) 9, Cheshire
Overview
Object type: Fragment of cross-head [1]
Measurements: H. 16 cm (6.25 in); W. 11.5 cm (4.5 in); D. 12.5 cm (5 in)
Stone type: Not examined
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 108
Corpus volume reference: Vol 9 p. 68-9
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Present Location
As Chester (St John) 1
Evidence for Discovery
Noted by D. Craig during photographic survey at St John's in 2008.
Church Dedication
St John
Present Condition
Only one carved face survives.
Description
To the left are possible remains of a roll-moulding border. Flanking this is a scroll stem with, to the right, a form of half-moon leaf with curled terminal and two oval fruit or foliate forms.
Discussion
There are close Chester parallels for this leaf form on Chester St John 5 and Chester Unknown Provenance 1 (Ills. 96, 120).
Date
Probably tenth or eleventh century
References
Unpublished
Endnotes
[1] The following are general references to the Chester St John stones: (–) 1864; Ormerod 1875–82, I, 317–18; Browne 1887b, 148–9; (–) 1888a, 211; (–) 1891b, 113–15; Scott 1892, 5; Glynne 1893, 144; Allen 1894, 4, 8, 9; Allen 1895, 135, 143, figs. facing 156; (–) 1910, 160–2, fig. facing 161; Collingwood 1926b, 378; Collingwood 1927a, 82, 143; Nash-Williams 1950, 129; Webster, G. 1951, 46; Rosser 1958, 142; Sylvester and Nulty 1958, 14; Bu'lock 1959; Pevsner and Hubbard 1971, 13; Bu'lock 1972, 82; Bailey 1980, 177–82; Bailey 1984, 16–18; Fellows-Jensen 1985, 402; Thacker 1987, 279, 288; Bailey and Cramp 1988, 31–2; Gelling 1992, 187–9; Higham, N. 1993b, 129; Bailey 1994, 119; Bailey 1996a, 53; Bailey 1996b, 30–1; Austin 1999, 81; Bailey 2003, 223; Blair 2005, 309–10; Thacker 2005; Mason 2007, 122, 123; Redknap and Lewis 2007, 449; Coatsworth 2008, 158. The following are unpublished manuscript references: BL Add. MS 37547, items 692–5 (Romilly Allen collection).
