The Corpus: Kirby Hill 05

Volume 6: Northern Yorkshire

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Current Display: Kirby Hill 05, Yorkshire North Riding

Overview

Object type: Shaft fragment [1] [2]

Measurements: H. 36.2 cm (14.25 in) W. 28 cm (11 in) D. Built in

Stone type: As Kirby Hill 3 (All Saints, Kirkby-on-the-Moor)

Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 355

Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 131

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Present Location

Built in above and to the right of the south door inside the porch

Evidence for Discovery

Found during the 1870 restoration and reset in the wall (Rowe 1870, 241)

Church Dedication

All Saints

Present Condition

One face visible; worn

Description

A (broad) : The edge moulding is modelled with a transverse bar separating two panels. The upper panel has belated scrolls with a filler at the centre of the base. The stem of the scroll acts as an inner frame at the base of the panel. The scrolls are flattened and have the odd shootlet. The lower panel has a strip at its top consisting of belated scrolls erupting from a horizontal band. Below is a random incised pattern resembling crazy-paving.

Discussion

See Kirby Hill 4 (All Saints, Kirkby-on-the-Moor); by the same hand.

Date

Tenth to eleventh century

References

Rowe 1870, 241, fig. 6; Allen 1891, 170 (2); Collingwood 1907, 271, 289, 338, fig. c on 339; Collingwood 1912, 124; Page, W. 1914, 370; Stapleton 1923, 10, 18, ill. 9; Collingwood 1927a, 179; Morris, J. 1931, 213; Bailey and Cramp 1988, 133

Endnotes

[1] The following are general references to the Kirby Hill stones: Lunn [1867], 13; Allen and Browne 1885, 353; Allen 1890, 293; Bulmer 1890, 734; Hodges 1894, 195, 201; Morris, J. 1904, 212, 420; Thompson 1908, 113; Stapleton 1923, 7, 10, 53; Morris, J. 1931, 212, 417; Pontefract and Hartley [1936], 126; Mee 1941, 125; Taylor and Taylor 1965, I, 355; Pevsner 1966, 210; Morris, R. 1989, 161; Muir 1997, 96–7.

[2] The following is an unpublished manuscript reference to no. 5: BL Add. MS 37552 no. XIV, item 633 (Romilly Allen collection).