Volume 13: Derbyshire and Staffordshire
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Current Display: Bakewell 30, Derbyshire
Overview
Object type: Part of shaft [1]
Measurements: H. 28 cm (11.2 in); W. 24 cm (9.4 in); D. 17 cm (6.7 in)
Stone type: Fine-grained, pinkish-grey (7.5YR 6/2) feldspathic sandstone. Millstone Grit Group, Carboniferous (R.T.)
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 75
Corpus volume reference: Vol 13 p. 134
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Present Location
Inside at west end of north aisle
Evidence for Discovery
See Bakewell 2.
Church Dedication
All Saints
Present Condition
Fragmentary and broken with only one face remaining.
Description
This piece is decorated on its only remaining face with a simple interlace design which appears to have comprised a series of turned, Stafford Knot pattern with looped terminals and doubled strands. Each side of the pattern is linked to the other by cross-over strands. Only one register now survives although it is clear that the pattern continued. There are the remains of an edge moulding on one side; the other is dressed-off.
Discussion
Probably part of a cross-shaft, the interlace pattern decorating it is of a type found elsewhere, for example, on Blackwell (East Derbyshire) 1, or Alstonefield 2 and Leek 1 in Staffordshire (Sidebottom 1994, 101), and so is likely dateable to the tenth century.
Date
Probably tenth century
References
Bateman 1847, 303; Bateman 1848, 183–4; Bateman 1855, 185; Routh 1937a, 16; Routh 1937b, 18; Sidebottom 1994, 148, 227 (Bakewell 36)
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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
