Volume 9: Cheshire and Lancashire

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Current Display: Meliden (Flintshire) 1, Cheshire Forward button Back button
Overview
Present Location
Grosvenor Museum, Chester (acc. no. 1967.647)
Evidence for Discovery
The museum's record card notes 'probably found in Chester'; the earliest record of its existence in the city dates to 1891 ((—) 1891b, 119–20).
Church Dedication
Present Condition
Description
Discussion

Appendix J item (stones associated with Cheshire whose original location probably or certainly lies outside the county) [1]

As Bu'lock (1972, 82) remarked, all of the motifs on this cross can be found, in rather less ordered form, on the Whitford cross in Flintshire (Nash-Williams 1950, no. 190, pl. XXXIV). Edwards (N. 1999) has since shown that the stone originally came from Meliden in Flintshire.

Date
Tenth or eleventh century
References
(—) 1891b, 119–20, fig. facing 119; Bu'lock 1959, 7, 11; Bu'lock 1972, 82, fig. 16; Edwards, N. 1999, 7, 8, 15, fig. 9; Griffiths 2006, 145; Mason 2007, 122, ill. 42
Endnotes
[1] Appendix categories D–H have been used in earlier volumes of this series, particularly Everson and Stocker 1999, 275–329, and Cramp 2006, 245–7.

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