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Object type: Fragments
Measurements: Unknown
Stone type: Unknown
Plate numbers in printed volume:
Corpus volume reference: Vol 10 p. 326
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Carved fragments said to be 'Saxon work'.
Appendix C item (lost stones for which no illustration has survived)
It should be noted that Cranage distinguished between these (possibly Anglo-Saxon) carved fragments and other early carvings (see Bridgnorth 1–3 in Appendix A, p. 320, Ills. 572–4) that were discovered in the tower at the same time (Cranage 1894–1912, i, 5). These other fragments were photographed and recorded by Jukes in 2004.
The Mercian Register records that ÆthelflÆd founded a burh at Bricge in 912; this is usually considered to refer to Bridgnorth (Whitelock et al. 1965, s.a. 912), though the identification is far from certain (Croom 1992, 19; Bassett 2011, 10–19). There is no further information about Bridgnorth during the late Anglo-Saxon period, and in the Domesday survey Bridgnorth is subsumed within the entry for Morville (Thorn and Thorn 1986, no. 4,1,5 and note; Croom 1988, 73). Croom (1992, 21–2, 34) suggests that St Leonard's served a parish with a territorial identity prior to and independent of the foundation of Bridgnorth (which she dates to c. 1100).
