Believed to be set into a wall within Lomberdale Hall

Cox suggests this was one of a number of stones found in the porch in 1854 by Bateman, who removed some of them to Lomberdale Hall. He described it as a slab having a 'diaper' design (Cox 1877a, 167), suggesting it had lozenge-shaped decoration. It was catalogued by Bateman (1855, 187) who described it as 'very early', and Browne illustrated it in his survey of 1886 (Browne 1886, 180–1, pl. XIV.5). The piece is reportedly still at Lomberdale Hall, built into a wall there (Peter Ryder, pers. com.), but access was not granted at the time of this survey.

St Helen

Unknown

This piece appears to be decorated with a series of lozenge designs of which three complete forms are visible with parts of six others. From Browne’s rubbing they appear to comprise relief patterns of competent composition.

Appendix B item (stones wrongly associated with pre-Conquest period)

Obviously fragmentary, this piece is difficult to place in an Anglo-Saxon context. It is similar to a decorated stone slab found at Birstall (2) in west Yorkshire which has been identified as ‘wholly Norman’ and dated to the eleventh to twelfth century (Collingwood 1927, 179, fig. 224d; Coatsworth 2008, 286).

Probably Anglo-Norman

Bateman 1855, 187; Bateman 1861–2, 22; Cox 1877a, 167; Allen and Browne 1885, 355; Browne 1886, 180–1, pl. XIV.5; Allen 1905, 281; Cox 1905, 28; Ryder 2016, 85