The Corpus: Hawksworth 2

Volume 12: Nottinghamshire

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Current Display: Hawksworth 2, Nottinghamshire

Overview

Object type: Mid twelfth-century sculpted and inscribed tympanum [1]

Measurements:

Stone type:

Plate numbers in printed volume: None

Corpus volume reference: Vol 12 p. 208

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Present Location

Evidence for Discovery

Church Dedication

St Mary and All Saints [2]

Present Condition

Description

Discussion

Appendix B item (stones wrongly associated with pre-Conquest period).

Mid twelfth-century sculpted and inscribed tympanum4 re-set in south wall of west tower externally.

Date

References

Pegge 1787, 37–8; Throsby 1790, 259; Phillimore 1897, 17 and fig.; (—) 1902, 184; Allen 1901–3; [Allen] 1903, 61; Stapleton 1903, 25–6; Keyser 1904, xxvii, xxxii, liii, 19, fig. 94; Godfrey 1907, 208, 212–17 and plate; Keyser 1907, 144–5; Robertson 1910, 79 and fig.; Stapleton 1911, 123–6; Cox 1912a, 104–5; Hill 1916a, 201; Guilford 1927, 97; Keyser 1927, xxi, xxviii, xxxiv, lvi, lxi and plate; Mee 1938, 125–6 and plate; Oswald, F. 1948, 87–91, fig. 1; Pevsner 1951, 78, pl. 36 (b); Marsden 1953, 155; Pevsner and Williamson 1979, 140 and plate; Thorold 1984, 79 and plate; Honeybone 1987, 32, 33, illus.; Wood, R. 2001, 12–13 and fig.; CRSBI entry: 'Reset tympanum, tower, S wall', illus. (consulted 14-2-2013)

Endnotes

[1] The following are unpublished manuscript references to Hawksworth 2: BL, Add MS 37604, vol. LXVI, ff. 378–401, illus. (nineteenth-century illustrations and correspondence in the J. Romilly Allen Collection); Add MS 37605, vol. LXVII, nos. 9–12 (rubbings in the J. Romilly Allen Collection).

[2] The church may have been dedicated to Edmund prior to the Reformation (Godfrey 1907, 208).