Volume 13: Derbyshire and Staffordshire
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Current Display: Bakewell 21, Derbyshire
Overview
Object type: Part of shaft [1]
Measurements: H. 31.5 cm (12.4 in); W. 24 cm (9.4 in); D. 10 cm (3.9 in)
Stone type: Coarse grained, pebbly, poorly sorted, very pale orange (10YR 8/4), feldspathic sandstone. Dominant clast size from 1 to 4 mm. Kinderscout Grit or Ashover Grit, Millstone Grit Group, Carboniferous (R.T.)
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 50, 53
Corpus volume reference: Vol 13 p. 127
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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
Worn and weathered with B and C dressed-off and D inaccessible.
Description
A (broad): Decorated with an irregular, asymmetrical, pattern comprising loops and interlace strands which do not appear to have formed part of a regular pattern. It is badly eroded to the extent that some of the detail is missing.
B (narrow) and C (broad): Plain, or more probably dressed-off
D (narrow): Inaccessible
Discussion
This piece is decorated with an abstract array of loops and strands forming no discernible pattern. There are several examples of such irregular designs in the region: at Chebsey (1), Staffordshire, for example (Ills. 515-18), and in neighbouring Cheshire, at Cheadle (1) or Prestbury (1–2) (Bailey 2010, 60–2, 95-7, ills.71–4, 230–7), all of which have been dated to the period of Scandinavian settlement in the region.
Date
Possibly tenth century
References
Routh 1937a, 12; Routh 1937b, 13; Sidebottom 1994, 148, 224 (Bakewell 21)
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
