The Corpus: Brompton in Allertonshire 19

Volume 6: Northern Yorkshire

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Current Display: Brompton in Allertonshire 19, Yorkshire North Riding

Overview

Object type: Hogback [1]

Measurements: L. 127 cm (50 in) W. (ends) 20.3 and 20.7 cm (8 and 8.1 in) H. (ends) 41.3 and 39.4 cm (16.25 and 15.5 in); (crown) 43.5 cm (17.1 in)

Stone type: As Brompton In Allertonshire 9 (St Thomas), except that this hogback has been partly burnt to a pink colour (5YR 7/4) on the ridge top and one side section.

Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 86–7

Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 75-76

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Present Location

At the east end of the nave, on the north side

Evidence for Discovery

See Brompton In Allertonshire 1 (St Thomas)

Church Dedication

St Thomas

Present Condition

Complete hogback. Worn along the top; quite crisp on the sides

Description

A plain ridge issues from the jowls of the end-beasts, worn, damaged and tapering slightly at each end.

A (long) : Below the ridge are two rows of type 1 tegulae identical in size with those of nos. 17 and 18. Below the tegulation a flat moulding surmounts a trapezoid panel divided into five triangular sections, each with a plain moulding and containing a triquetra.

The end-beasts are worn, though there are traces of an eye in a raised circle with a central depression. The small rounded ears are treated similarly. Each beast is muzzled. Only the forelegs are depicted, the five toes touching the base of the ridge. The beasts are naturalistic with rounded backs and bevelled corners. The sides of the hogback are bombé and the roof pitches steeply curved.

C (long) : As face A.

Discussion

This hogback is of type a (panel) and shares many of the features of nos. 17 and 18. Its array of triangular panels with triquetra, however, is unique and accommodates well to the legs of the end-beasts. There are more signs of wear on the creatures, but their proportions, posture and muzzles suggest that the monument may have come from the same hand as nos. 17 and 18. The closely-packed plain strand of the knotwork is paralleled on some of the crosses at Brompton, for instance no. 9 (Ill. 51).

Date

First half of tenth century

References

Rowe 1877, 62, pl. facing 61; Collingwood 1907, 276, 300; Collingwood 1912, 123; Page, W. 1914, 431; Collingwood 1927a, 168; Lang 1967, 35–6, fig. 8, pl. IV; Schmidt 1970, 19, fig. 6; Schmidt 1973, 69, fig. 27b; Lang 1978c, 20, pl. IVe; Lang 1984a, 99, 106, 120, no. 4, pl. on 121; Schmidt 1994, 139, figs. 63, 70; Everson and Stocker 1999, 174, 203

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.