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Object type: Double socket-stone
Measurements:
L. 183 cm (72 in); W. 112 > 82 cm (44 > 28.5 in); H. 32 cm (12.5 in)
Diameter of east socket 52 cm (20.5 in); of west socket 58 cm (22.75 in); depth of sockets not known
Stone type: Pale olive (10Y 6/2), medium-grained (0.2 to 0.5 mm), angular to sub-angular (a few grains sub-rounded), clast-supported, quartz sandstone. Millstone Grit Group, Carboniferous
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 160-1
Corpus volume reference: Vol 9 p. 73
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The stone carries two circular socket holes on its upper surface.
Double socket-stone (see Chapter V, pp. 37–8). With Disley Lyme Handley 3 and the Ludworth socket in Derbyshire this stone forms a group of socket-stones cut for two round shafts (Ill. 162; Sharpe 2002, fig. on 93). Its original position was close to a spring and not in a churchyard, since Disley did not have a chapel until the sixteenth century. Marshall (1975) has argued that this socket, together with Disley Lyme Handley 1 and 2, and Disley Lyme Hall 1, 2 and 4, were originally all part of the same monument sited at Disley church; this possibility is discussed further below, pp. 75, 78.
Marshall has also noted that one of the signatories to a 1590 document listing 'Enormities of the Ecclesiasticall state' in the region, amongst which were 'crosses in streetes ... devowtly garnished', was Henry Sumner who had recently been appointed a priest at Disley (Raines 1875, 1–2; Marshall 1975, 70–1). His iconoclastic zeal may lie behind the destruction of the Church Field monument, though the Ecclesiastical Commission of 1548, committed to the destruction of papal emblems, had visited Disley earlier and could equally have been responsible.
