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Object type: Cross-shaft
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Corpus volume reference: Vol 8 p. 286
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Appendix B item (Stones wrongly associated with pre-Conquest period)
A cross-shaft at the west end of the nave was included in Collingwood's list of West Riding pre-Conquest sculpture (1915a, 135), although he did not draw it and himself concluded that it was no earlier than 'Late Norman'. Earlier writers certainly ascribed it to the pre-Conquest period, and Baldwin Brown (1937, 146) called it 'Saxonic' and compared it to Collingham 3. Ryder (1982, 103) noted that, despite Brown, it is a 'thoroughly Romanesque piece with only an echo of earlier forms in three-cord plait with pellets on lower part of south face'. Thrybergh 1 (p. 289) could be the work of the same sculptor. Its stone type (very hard, pale grey limestone, probably from the local Cadeby Formation) [1] can also be compared to Rawmarsh 1 (p. 288), another shaft of the same group and twelfth-century date.
