Volume 6: Northern Yorkshire
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Current Display: Brompton in Allertonshire 15, Yorkshire North Riding
Overview
Object type: Cross-head fragment [1]
Measurements: H. 29.8 cm (11.7 in) W. 33 cm (13 in) D. 16 > 14 cm (6.2 > 5.5 in)
Stone type: As Brompton In Allertonshire 3 (St Thomas)
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 75–8
Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 73
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Present Location
Monks' Dormitory, Durham cathedral, catalogue no. 55
Evidence for Discovery
See Brompton In Allertonshire 4 (St Thomas)
Church Dedication
St Thomas
Present Condition
Broken and worn; the centre and two limbs of a cross-head
Description
A (broad) : A plate-head cross of type B10 with widely curving arm-pits and slightly convex tip. The edge moulding is modelled. At the centre is a damaged flat circular boss. In the two surviving arms are 'Brompton loops', that in the lateral limb much defaced. By the arm-pit is a bold pellet filler.
B (narrow) : Broken away.
C (broad) : As face A.
D (narrow) : Broken; the plate survives.
E (top) : The tip of the upper arm has a broad irregular flat edge moulding. Within the panel are two registers of closed circuit interlace in modelled strand.
Discussion
This is a brave and clumsy copy of the sub-group of plate-heads exemplified by no. 11 (Ills. 58–61). The 'Brompton loops' are degenerate and need the pellet filler. The cutting is picked work and unplanned. It still qualifies for the Brompton school.
Date
First half of tenth century
References
Haverfield and Greenwell 1899, 118–19, no. LV, fig. on 118; Collingwood 1907, 300; Collingwood 1912, 123; Collingwood 1926a, 326; Elgee and Elgee 1933, 219; Cramp 1965a, 7, no. 55
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.
