The Corpus: Eccleshall 3

Volume 13: Derbyshire and Staffordshire

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Current Display: Eccleshall 3, Staffordshire

Overview

Object type: Part of shaft

Measurements: L. c. 55 cm (21.6 in); W. c. 35 cm (13.75 in); D. unknown

Stone type: Cannot be accessed

Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 541

Corpus volume reference: Vol 13 p. 286-287

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Present Location

Built about 5 m (16 ft) up into the east end of the interior south wall of nave arcade, next to chancel.

Evidence for Discovery

First noted by Scrivener as having been recently discovered, in situ, prior to the visit of the North Staffordshire Naturalist's Field Club and Archaeological Society in 1907.

Church Dedication

Holy Trinity

Present Condition

Fragmentary and cut to fit the arcade; built into the wall so that only one face is visible

Description

The stone is bounded by a cable angle moulding inset with a thin plain roll moulding. Contained within these is a six-strand interlace pattern with two of the diagonal strands turned back to form opposed pattern F loops with a gap between them.

Discussion

The interlace pattern is very well formed, and bounded by well-carved regular (concave) cable angle mouldings with thin plain inner roll moulding, resembling the framing preserved on Bakewell 12, 15 and 16, which seem to have emerged from the same centre of production as the monuments at Sandbach (see p. 124), and can be dated to the early to mid-ninth century.

Date

First half of ninth century

References

Scrivener 1907–8, 172; (—) 1914–15, 203–4; Pape 1928–9, 153; Pape 1929–30, 170; Steele 1947–8a, 122, pl. XIII.25; Spufford and Spufford 1964, 9

J.H.

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