Volume 6: Northern Yorkshire
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Current Display: Brompton in Allertonshire 22, Yorkshire North Riding
Overview
Object type: Hogback [1]
Measurements: L. 134.6 cm (53 in) W. (ends) 25.4 and 22.9 cm (10 and 9 in) H. 39.4 cm (15.5 in)
Stone type: The stone is very dirty but seems to be the same as no. 21.
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 94–5
Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 77
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Present Location
Monks' Dormitory, Durham cathedral, catalogue no. 60
Evidence for Discovery
See Brompton In Allertonshire 4 (St Thomas)
Church Dedication
St Thomas
Present Condition
A full-length hogback, the top broken away
Description
The ridge, end-beasts' heads and upper parts of the interlace panels are lost.
A (long) : Between the forelegs of the end-beasts the lower registers of three vertical panels of closed circuit interlace survive, crudely cut in a broad strand. Below is a recessed niche with a flat top, the surfaces roughly hacked. The sides are flat and almost vertical. Only the forelegs and throats of the end-beasts remain, the junction between them being an arc at one end and V-shaped at the other.
C (long) : As face A.
Discussion
This is a type c (niche) hogback, though its cutting suggests that it is by the sculptor of no. 20 whose expertise did not excel. It may well be a copy of Ingleby Arncliffe 4 (Ills. 335–6) or Sockburn 17, co. Durham (Ill. 1195; Cramp 1984, 141-2, pl. 143, 761–2).
Date
First half of tenth century
References
Haverfield and Greenwell 1899, 123, no. LX, fig. on 123; Collingwood 1907, 276, 300; Collingwood 1912, 123; Cramp 1965a, 8, no. 60; Lang 1967, 41; Schmidt 1973, 69 fn.; Lang 1984a, 97, 122, no. 7, pl. on 123
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.
