The Corpus: Thornhill 09

Volume 8: Western Yorkshire

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Current Display: Thornhill 09, West Riding of Yorkshire

Overview

Object type: End of cross-arm [1]

Measurements: H. 19.3 cm (7.6 in); W. 17.8 cm (7 in); D. 13.2 cm (5.3 in)

Stone type: Sandstone, pale brown, fine to medium grained, quartz with subordinate feldspar, sparse mica grains. Cross-bedding evident. Upper Carboniferous, local Pennine Coal Measures Group. [G.L.]

Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 759-63

Corpus volume reference: Vol 8 p. 264-5

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Present Location

As Thornhill 1

Evidence for Discovery

Haigh (1877, 416) records this was found in building works of January 1876, in the fifteenth-century foundations of the same wall as Thornhill 3 and 4. See also Thornhill 1.

Church Dedication

St Michael and All Angels

Present Condition

Incomplete but the carving though shallow and rather worn is still legible.

Description

The end of a cross-arm of type B, possibly B9 or B10. The arrises are battered but appear to be flat.

A (broad): The arm is filled with interlace, with a fine strand, shallowly carved but with a slightly modelled surface. The terminal knots are distorted to fit the space and the upper of the pair is damaged, but they appear to represent one register of pattern F, its four working strands forming a glide to connect this to an incomplete knot with encircling strands.

B (narrow): (the top as now displayed). The end of the arm has double edge mouldings, which appear to be flat and separated by a shallow groove. The fine interlace in the enclosed panel is very worn but appears to be based on a half pattern, simple pattern F with outside strands.

C (broad): One register of pattern E and part of another

D (narrow): Missing

E (top) and F (bottom): Plain within plain borders

Discussion

This has to be compared to Thornhill 2: faces A and B are particularly close in treatment to faces B and C of no. 2 (Ills. 729, 730). Possibly part of the same monument.

Date

Ninth century

References

Haigh 1877, 416, 419, no. IV, figs. on 417; Allen 1890, 300, 301, 304; Allen 1891, 233–4, no. 9, figs. 4, 18; Allen 1903, 218, 235, nos. 562, 607; Collingwood 1912, 131; Collingwood 1915a, 246–7, 278, figs. e–g on 247; Collingwood 1927, 42, 61, fig. 78; Collingwood 1929, 36, figs. e–g on 35; Sidebottom 1994, 91–5, 272, no. 10, 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.