Volume 13: Derbyshire and Staffordshire
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Current Display: Bakewell 38, Derbyshire
Overview
Object type: Fragment [1]
Measurements: H. 22 cm (8.7 in); W. 22 cm (8.7 in); D. 9 cm (3.5 in)
Stone type: The very degraded nature of the surface makes identification difficult. However this is a fine-grained, pinkish-grey (7.5YR 6/2–7/2) sandstone. Millstone Grit Group, Carboniferous (R.T.)
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 456
Corpus volume reference: Vol 13 p. 251
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Present Location
In an alcove at the west end of the nave
Evidence for Discovery
Presumed to be a piece recovered during alterations to the church, 1841-51 (see Bakewell 2, p. 113).
Church Dedication
All Saints
Present Condition
Fragmentary, with decoration on one side only.
Description
A (broad): Decorated with a curved flat moulding and two modelled strands which flare out towards the break on the right-hand side.
Discussion
Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date)
The stone is too fragmentary to interpret the nature of the decorative scheme, although the flared aspect of the two strands terminating on the left at the flat moulding is reminiscent of the arm of a cross-head curving round the cusped arm-pits. Whether it dates to the pre-Conquest period is unclear and perhaps doubtful. Ryder (2016, 33) includes it in his post-Conquest corpus of medieval cross-slabs in Derbyshire, and it is similar to the cross-heads found for example, here at Bakewell (ibid., 14, 20, fig. 17) or at Darley Dale (ibid., 57, 61, fig. 3).
Date
Unknown
References
Routh 1937a, 16; Routh 1937b, 18; Sidebottom 1994, 148, 227 (Bakewell 35); Ryder 2016, 33, fig. 99
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
