Inside at west end of north aisle

See Bakewell 2.

All Saints

Most of A is damaged and part of B is missing, probably through reuse of the stone as building material; C is obscured.

A (broad): About three-quarters of this face is dressed away, but a small part of a four-strand interlace survives towards the top; it appears less than symmetrical. Edge mouldings seem to be preserved on each side.

B (narrow): Decorated with a simple spiral scroll with only one (centre) now complete, the others truncated. The scrolls appear to terminate in the centre with a strand which disappears below the outer strands to connect to the spiral below. The edge mouldings are badly damaged and the lower part of the face has been broken away.

C (broad): Obscured by its location next to the church wall, but appears to have been dressed-off.

D (narrow): Decorated by a simple interlace design comprising a series of turned, Stafford Knot style patterns with V-bend terminals. Each side of the pattern is linked to the other by cross-over strands. The pattern is reasonably well-executed and appears to be complete at the bottom where there is a horizontal frame; detail below is now lost and the pattern is truncated at the top. There are edge mouldings on both sides, although they appear to have been subsequently dressed.

Part of a rectangular-sectioned cross-shaft, the fragmentary nature of this piece makes it difficult to discuss in detail. The four-strand interlace on A is ubiquitous to Anglo-Saxon sculpture, while the interlace pattern on D is found elsewhere in the region: on Blackwell 1 (East Derbyshire), Alstonefield 2, or Leek 1 in Staffordshire (Sidebottom 1994, 103). The spiral scroll on B is a particular feature of Bakewell sculpture, albeit in a variety of forms, and is also found elsewhere: on Two Dales 1 and Brailsford 1 in Derbyshire or on Ilam 2, Alstonefield 9 and Chesterton 1 in Staffordshire. Together these shared features suggest a date in the tenth century is most likely.

Probably tenth century

Browne 1886, 175, pl. XV.7; Routh 1937a, 14; Routh 1937b, 15–16; Sidebottom 1994, 148, 225 (Bakewell 29)

[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