The Corpus: Crathorne 04

Volume 6: Northern Yorkshire

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Current Display: Crathorne 04, Yorkshire North Riding

Overview

Object type: Part of hogback [1][2]

Measurements: L. 182 cm (71.7 in) W. 32 cm (12.6 in) H. 35 > 24 cm (13.8 > 9.5 in)

Stone type: Medium-grained, well sorted, slightly feldspathic, deltaic sandstone. Brownish yellow (10YR 6/6). Stone provenance as Crathorne 1 (All Saints)

Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 133–4

Corpus volume reference: Vol 6 p. 86

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Present Location

Reused as a lintel over south door; visible from both sides

Evidence for Discovery

None; apparently set in its present position when the nave was built in the fourteenth century, and left in situ during the 1887–8 restorations (see Bulmer 1890, 118).

Church Dedication

All Saints

Present Condition

The top lost; quite crisp

Description

A (long) : A plain modelled moulding runs along the top of the fragment, below which is a well-ordered run of scroll and pellet in broad fleshy strand. Below it is a run of interlace in modelled strand with medial terminations. It consists of six elements. A long closed circuit runs the length of the panel with a simple loop. Linked into this are three closed circuits of two, four and five stages as well as two free rings. Except for the loop, all the terminations are elliptical. The panel tapers at each end. Below is a broad plain plinth.

B and D (ends) : Built in.

C (long) : As face A, but more damaged.

Discussion

This is a type h hogback, the scroll variety, which is the most widespread, occurring at Repton, Derbyshire, in Cumbria, and elsewhere in Yorkshire (Lang 1984a, 101). The leafless plant-scroll and the trompe-l'oeil interlace are late derivations from the Anglian repertoire on a type of monument initiated by Anglo-Norse colonists. Compare Bedale 5 (Ill. 8), Kirby Wiske 2 (Ills. 387–8) and York, St Mary Bishophill Junior 7 (Lang 1991, 87, ills. 241–5), as well as no. 6 below.

Date

First half of tenth century

References

Bulmer 1890, 118; Lofthouse 1896–8, 16; (—) 1896–1905a, vii; (—) 1899–1900b, 250; Morris, J. 1904, 127, 420; Collingwood 1907, 269, 276, 277, 285, 286, 291, 305, fig. a on 304; Collingwood 1912, 115, 123; Collingwood 1915, 273, 284; Page, W. 1923, 236; Collingwood 1927a, 164–5, fig. 197; Wall 1930, 51; Morris, J. 1931, 33, 128 (3); Mee 1941, 64; Pevsner 1966, 130; Lang 1967, 61–2, pl. XIV; Morris, C. 1976a, 141; Bailey 1980, 98; Lang 1984a, 101, 105, 126, no. 3, pl. on 127; Bailey and Cramp 1988, 29

Endnotes

[1] The following are general references to the Crathorne stones: Bulmer 1890, 118; Hodges 1894, 195; Allen 1895, 148; Morris, J. 1904, 420; Collingwood 1908, 120; Page, W. 1923, 236 fn, 237; Morris, J. 1931, 417; Morris, C. 1976a, 141; Brown, M. 1979, 41; Lang 1984a, 87.

[2] The following is an unpublished manuscript reference to no. 4: BL Add. MS 37552 no. XIV, item 526 (Romilly Allen collection).