The Corpus: Thornhill 07

Volume 8: Western Yorkshire

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Current Display: Thornhill 07, West Riding of Yorkshire

Overview

Object type: Shaft fragment(?) [1]

Measurements: H. 28 cm (11 in); W. (incomplete) 20.5 cm (8 in); D. 13 cm (5.1 in)

Stone type: Sandstone, pale brown, medium to coarse grained, quartz with subordinate feldspar, sparse mica grains. Quartz cemented. Upper Carboniferous, Millstone Grit Group. [G.L.]

Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 751-4

Corpus volume reference: Vol 8 p. 263-4

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Present Location

As Thornhill 1

Evidence for Discovery

See Thornhill 1.

Church Dedication

St Michael and All Angels

Present Condition

Only parts of two faces survive.

Description

It is not absolutely clear that this is a cross-shaft. It could be part of a shrine-tomb.

A (broad): On the left is what looks like a triple border, the two inner mouldings slightly damaged. The face has an interlace with outside strands, incomplete on the left but either a six-cord plait, or possibly a pattern based on pattern F loops.

B (narrow) and C (broad): Missing

D (narrow): Incomplete on the left, four vertical mouldings separated by three deep parallel grooves. The surface of the bands or mouldings is slightly convex.

Discussion

The multiple mouldings provide a link with Dewsbury 15, the shrine tomb, where a similar arrangement of parallel mouldings is part of the decoration of the roof (Ills. 238–9). There is no suggestion of tegulation here, but the use of multiple mouldings is interesting.

Date

Ninth century

References

Allen 1890, 299; Allen 1891, 233, no. 7; Allen 1903, 207, no. 520; Collingwood 1912, 131; Collingwood 1915a, 248, 268, 271, figs. n–o on 247; Collingwood 1929, 37, figs. n–o on 35; Sidebottom 1994, 91–5, 271, no. 4, and pls.

Endnotes

[1] The following are general references to the Thornhill stones: (–––) 1876a; (–––) 1876b; Haigh 1877, 416, 419; Allen 1889, 213, 220, 221, 222; Allen 1890, 293, 297; Browne 1899–1901, 169; MacMichael 1906, 360, 365; Innocent 1910, 90; Morris 1911, 499; Collingwood 1915b, 334; Collingwood 1927, 23, 42, 109; Collingwood 1929, 22, 33, col. pl. facing 7; Collingwood 1932, 51, 53; Arntz 1938, 89; Pevsner 1959, 21, 503; Pevsner 1967, 21, 511; Page 1973, 29, 31, 34–5, 37, 48, 134–5, 217; Faull 1981, 218; Ryder 1991, 44; Ryder 1993, 174; Page 1995, 298; Page 1999, 29, 31, 34–5, 37, 130–1, 136, 228.