The Corpus: Sandbach (St Mary) 3

Volume 9: Cheshire and Lancashire

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Current Display: Sandbach (St Mary) 3, Cheshire

Overview

Object type: (5) Fragment of shaft [1][2]

Measurements: H. 89 cm (35 in); W. 42 > 31 cm (16.5 > 12.25 in); D. 36 > 31 cm (14 > 12.25 in)

Stone type: As Sandbach (St Mary) 2

Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 301-4

Corpus volume reference: Vol 9 p. 123-24

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Present Location

As Sandbach (St Mary) 1

Evidence for Discovery

See Sandbach (St Mary) 1 above

Church Dedication

St Mary

Present Condition

As Sandbach (St Mary) 1 above. This is the most damaged of the churchyard stones. Two sockets are cut into it, one in the north-west corner, the other in the south-east corner

Description

No decoration is now certainly visible, though in some lights there are possible traces of figural ornament on the south face.

Discussion

See Sandbach (St Mary) 1 above. In general proportions this stone matches Sandbach (St Mary) 1 and 2 above.

Date

Uncertain

References

(See Sandbach (St Mary) 1 above); Radford 1956, 6–7; Radford 1957, 5; Hawkes 2002, 23–7, 121–7, 177, figs. 1.2, 4.3, 8.7, 8.8

Endnotes

[1] Numbers in bracketed italics are those given by Radford (1957) and Hawkes (2002), and used in the present display.

[2] The following is a general reference to the Sandbach St Mary stones: Higham, N. 1993b, 167–9.