The Corpus: Kirkheaton 4

Volume 8: Western Yorkshire

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Current Display: Kirkheaton 4, West Riding of Yorkshire

Overview

Object type: Fragment of shaft [1]

Measurements: H. 20 cm (7.9 in); W. 24 cm (9.5 in); D. 12.7 cm (5 in)

Stone type: Sandstone, dark brown, fine-grained, quartzose with feldspars. Lower Coal Measures Group, Carboniferous (Local Grenoside Sandstone?) [G.L.]

Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 457-60

Corpus volume reference: Vol 8 p. 191-2

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Present Location

Tolson Memorial Museum, Huddersfield (acc. no. 6253)

Evidence for Discovery

Possibly also found in 1886 (see Kirkheaton 1 and 3).

Church Dedication

St John the Baptist

Present Condition

Broken so that traces of edge mouldings survive only on face A. The remains of carving on A are quite clear and sharp, all other faces are broken and battered.

Description

Possibly a fragment of a cross-shaft, carved in a very similar flat, open style as Kirkheaton 3. The edges have not really survived but there are fragments of a moulding, damaged but possibly rounded, on both sides of face A.

A (broad): One register of double-stranded simple pattern E, with traces of further registers above and below. The strand is narrow and the carving shallow without modelling, the interlace is angular as on Kirkheaton 3.

B and D (narrow): Much of these faces is missing, but both have traces of interlace loops and strands.

C (broad): Completely hacked away.

Discussion

See Kirkheaton 3. This is possibly by the same hand as Kirkheaton 3.

Date

Probably late ninth to tenth century

References

Morris 1911, 291; Collingwood 1912, 130; Collingwood 1915a, 209, 265, fig. g on 208; Collingwood 1927, 53, fig. 67g; Collingwood 1929, 43, fig. g on 42; Sidebottom 1994, 80–2, 255, no. 3, and pls.

Endnotes

[1] The following are general references to the Kirkheaton stones: Morris 1911, 46, 549; Collingwood 1915b, 334; Mee 1941, 215; Pevsner 1959, 290; Faull 1981, 218; Ryder 1991, 33; Ryder 1993, 163.