The Corpus: Thornhill 08

Volume 8: Western Yorkshire

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Current Display: Thornhill 08, West Riding of Yorkshire

Overview

Object type: Shaft fragment [1]

Measurements: H. 9.5 cm (7.7 in); W. 20.2 cm (8 in); D. 12.9 cm (5.1 in)

Stone type: As Thornhill (St Michael and All Angels) 4. Sandstone, buff to pale orange brown, fine to medium grained, quartz with subordinate feldspar, sparse mica grains with fine quartz-filled fractures, sporadically cross-cutting the fabric. Upper Carboniferous, local Pennine Coal Measures Group. [G.L.]

Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 755-8

Corpus volume reference: Vol 8 p. 264

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Present Location

As Thornhill 1

Evidence for Discovery

First mentioned by Allen (1891, 234).

Church Dedication

St Michael and All Angels

Present Condition

Broken but in good condition

Description

A small section of a tapering rectangular cross-shaft.

A (broad): A fragment from the stem of a simple or spiral scroll, curving away from the volute below, from which springs a tri-lobed bud to fill the spandrel, stopping just before the return curve of the next volute. A pointed leaf drops from this volute.

B and D (narrow) and C (broad): Plain except for the incised borders, single on faces B and D, double on C

Discussion

It could be the upper section of the shaft represented by Thornhill 3 (Ills. 733–6). The incised borders are identical, including the double incised border on faces A and C.

Date

Ninth century

References

Allen 1891, 234, no. 11; Collingwood 1912, 131; Collingwood 1915a, 247, fig. h; Collingwood 1929, 36, fig. h on 35; Sidebottom 1994, 83–5, 272, no. 9, 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.