The Corpus: Brompton in Allertonshire 06

Volume 6: Northern Yorkshire

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Current Display: Brompton in Allertonshire 06, Yorkshire North Riding

Overview

Object type: Shaft fragment [1][2]

Measurements: L. 25 cm (9.8 in) W. 17.3 cm (6.8 in) D. Built in

Stone type: Fine-grained, deltaic sandstone with sub-angular grains. Yellowish brown (10YR 5/6). Stone provenance as no. 1

Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 48

Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 69

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Present Location

Built into the exterior south wall of the chancel, near the low-side window; on its side

Evidence for Discovery

None; drawn by J. Romilly Allen before his death in 1907

Church Dedication

St Thomas

Present Condition

Only one face visible

Description

A plain, modelled edge moulding flanks a run of Como-braid: five loops on one side, four on the other.

Discussion

This is assured carving on a grid. The modelled profiles and the Como-braid are identical with those of the shaft Sockburn 7 (Cramp 1984, 138, pl. 134, 727 and 729), which is very probably from the same atelier: the Allertonshire workshop (see Chap. VI, p. 44). The visible face must be a narrow side of the shaft, to judge from the parallel at Sockburn.

Date

First half of tenth century

References

Unpublished

Endnotes

[1] The following are general references to the Brompton stones: (—) 1867–8, lxxxviii; Rowe 1870, 240; (—) 1871–2, xxiv; Greenwell 1869–79a, lx; Rowe 1877, 61–4; Allen and Browne 1885, 352; Browne 1885–6, 124, 128; Saywell 1886, 481; Allen 1887, 126, 386, fig. 28; (—) 1890–5a, viii; Haverfield and Greenwell 1899, 125–6; Bulmer 1890, 389; Hodges 1894, 195; Morris, J. 1904, 32, 84–5, 420; Bogg 1908, 28–32, ills. on 29 and 32; Page, W. 1914, 430, 431; Morris, J. 1931, 33, 86, 87, 417; Elgee and Elgee 1933, 219–20, 245; Mee 1941, 41–2; Fisher 1959, 89; Pevsner 1966, 90, pl. 8; Bailey 1980, 85, 100, 240, 252, 255, 265; Kerr and Kerr 1982, 38–9 and ill.; Morris, R. 1983, 7; Cramp 1984, 11, 30, 93; Bailey and Cramp 1988, 54; Lang 1988a, 14, 24, 56; Cambridge 1989, 378; Richards 1991, 80, 119, 124, ill. 81; Everson and Stocker 1999, 138; Stocker 2000, 205–6.
[2] The following is an unpublished manuscript reference to no. 6: BL Add. MS 37552 no. XIV, item 505 (Romilly Allen collection).