The Corpus: Methley 1

Volume 8: Western Yorkshire

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Current Display: Methley 1, West Riding of Yorkshire

Overview

Object type: Stone with interlace(?)

Measurements: Not recorded

Stone type: Not recorded

Plate numbers in printed volume:

Corpus volume reference: Vol 8 p. 291

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Present Location

Unknown

Evidence for Discovery

Allen placed Methley in his list of Anglo-Saxon stones with interlaced ornament (Allen and Browne 1885, 354); and listed it again (Allen 1890, 293) with no further information; and a third time (Allen 1891, 227) with a note that he had not yet obtained a description of this stone. Collingwood (1915a, 218) noted the reference in Allen and Browne's list (1885), but said he failed to find anything there.

Church Dedication

St Oswald

Present Condition

Unknown

Description

Discussion

Appendix C (Lost stones for which no illustration has survived)

There is a trapdoor in the floor of the nave (noted in Ryder 1993, 167) which gives access to traces of older cross walls, believed locally to be Anglo-Saxon, but there does not appear to have ever been the discovery of any decorated stone which might be of pre-Conquest date. The existence of this stone seems uncertain.

Date

References

Allen and Browne 1885, 354; Allen 1890, 293; Allen 1891, 227; Collingwood 1912, 130; Collingwood 1915a, 218

Endnotes

None