Volume 13: Derbyshire and Staffordshire
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Current Display: Bakewell 18, Derbyshire
Overview
Object type: Part of shaft [1]
Measurements: H. 48 cm (18.9 in); W. 30 cm (11.8 in); D. 25 cm (9.9 in)
Stone type: Well-sorted, medium-grained, light red (2.5YR 6/6), feldspathic sandstone. Median grain size around 0.5 mm. Kinderscout Grit or Ashover Grit, Millstone Grit Group, Carboniferous (R.T.)
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 43
Corpus volume reference: Vol 13 p. 126
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Present Location
Built into interior east wall of south porch
Evidence for Discovery
See Bakewell 2.
Church Dedication
All Saints
Present Condition
Apparently reused, perhaps as a building component; B and D have been dressed back at an angle so that the stone is almost triangular in section. Decoration survives on A only, although the small surviving part of C is inaccessible.
Description
The decoration on A comprises an incomplete simple four-strand interlace pattern with turned v-shaped terminals at the bottom; the top is missing. The pattern is contained by wide, rounded edge-mouldings at the bottom and on each side.
Discussion
This is probably part of a cross-shaft decorated on at least one face with the four-strand interlace pattern that is relatively ubiquitous across the region and beyond, many of which are dated to the tenth century.
Date
Tenth century
References
Routh 1937a, 12; Routh 1937b, 13; Sidebottom 1994, 148, 223 (Bakewell 19)
P.S.
Endnotes
[1] The following are general references to the Bakewell sculptures (other than Bakewell 1): (—) 1845b, 156; Plumptre 1847, 38, 39, 46; (—) 1852, 324; (—) 1855, 67; Hicklin and Wallis 1869, 60; Cox 1877a, 32, 36–7; Cox 1878, 37–8; (—) 1879b, 34; (—) 1885b, 502–3; Allen and Browne 1885, 355; Cox 1887, 37–8; Lynam 1895b, 157; (—) 1900, 89; Cox 1903a; Le Blanc Smith 1904a, 195; Firth 1905, 264; Arnold-Bemrose 1910, 107; (—) 1914a, 401–2; (—) 1914b, 36; Browne 1915, 219; Collingwood 1927, 136; Moncrieff 1927, 86; Tudor 1929, 91; Brown 1937, 94–5; Routh 1937a, 7–8; Routh 1937b, 8–9; Fisher 1959, 72; Thompson 1961, 218; Radford 1961a, 210; Butler 1964, 112; Taylor and Taylor 1965, I, 36; Cramp 1977, 192, 218–19; Pevsner and Williamson 1978, 71; Cramp 1985, 311; Craven and Stanley 1986, 27; Bailey 1990, 2; Jones 1993, 68; Leonard 1993, 48; Sidebottom 1994, 151; Bailey 1996, 11; Barnatt and Smith 1997, 57; Sidebottom 1999, 218; Elliott 2001–2; Sharpe 2002, 61; Hopkinson et al. 2004, 15; Blair 2005, 315, 342, 469–70; Bergius 2012, 189; Stocker and Everson 2015, 16; Ryder 2016, 13, 14, 16, 17
