Volume 8: Western Yorkshire

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Current Display: Kirkheaton 5, West Riding of Yorkshire Forward button Back button
Overview
Present Location
Tolson Memorial Museum, Huddersfield (acc. no. 6258)
Evidence for Discovery
See Kirkheaton 3
Church Dedication
St John the Baptist
Present Condition
Damaged but in good condition
Description

A round-headed window cut out of single block, its arch outlined by three rows of cable moulding.

Discussion

The window is an undoubted pre-Conquest type, although not easily datable within that period.

Date
Pre-Conquest
References
Fowler 1893, 136; Morris 1911, 291; Ryder 1993, 24, 163, ill. 31
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.

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