Volume 13: Derbyshire and Staffordshire
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Current Display: Bakewell 06, Derbyshire
Overview
Object type: Probably part of shaft? [1]
Measurements: H. 29 cm (11.4 in); W. 27 cm (10.6 in); D. c. 16 cm (6.3 in)
Stone type: Fine- to medium-grained, very pale brown (10YR 8/3) sandstone. Feldspathic, though marginally so. Quartz clasts 0.5 mm present. Namurian sandstone consistent with low-energy facies of the Kinderscout Grit and Ashover Grit locally, but more typical of the Shale Grit to the north. Millstone Grit Group, Carboniferous (R.T.)
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 23
Corpus volume reference: Vol 13 p. 115
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National Grid Reference of Place of Discovery
SK 215685
Present Location
Built into interior east wall of south porch
Evidence for Discovery
See Bakewell 2.
Church Dedication
All Saints
Present Condition
Fragmentary, with the decoration worn and half missing, possibly as the result of subsequent damage.
Description
Only one face is accessible. The lower half is plain and appears to have been dressed-off. The upper part, standing proud of the lower section, is decorated by a simple interlace which appears to be a four-strand looped pattern articulated with little geometrical symmetry.
Discussion
The stone is too fragmentary to discuss in any detail. The use of a four-strand interlace is quite common and there are several examples elsewhere in the region. Its present, horizontal arrangement, a departure from the more usual vertical layout, is almost certainly the result of the piece having been built sideways into the current display in the south porch.
Date
Possibly tenth century
References
Routh 1937a, 10; Routh 1937b, 11; Sidebottom 1994, 148, 221–2 (Bakewell 9)
P.S.
Endnotes
[1] The following are general references to the Bakewell sculptures (other than Bakewell 1): (—) 1845b, 156; Plumptre 1847, 38, 39, 46; (—) 1852, 324; (—) 1855, 67; Hicklin and Wallis 1869, 60; Cox 1877a, 32, 36–7; Cox 1878, 37–8; (—) 1879b, 34; (—) 1885b, 502–3; Allen and Browne 1885, 355; Cox 1887, 37–8; Lynam 1895b, 157; (—) 1900, 89; Cox 1903a; Le Blanc Smith 1904a, 195; Firth 1905, 264; Arnold-Bemrose 1910, 107; (—) 1914a, 401–2; (—) 1914b, 36; Browne 1915, 219; Collingwood 1927, 136; Moncrieff 1927, 86; Tudor 1929, 91; Brown 1937, 94–5; Routh 1937a, 7–8; Routh 1937b, 8–9; Fisher 1959, 72; Thompson 1961, 218; Radford 1961a, 210; Butler 1964, 112; Taylor and Taylor 1965, I, 36; Cramp 1977, 192, 218–19; Pevsner and Williamson 1978, 71; Cramp 1985, 311; Craven and Stanley 1986, 27; Bailey 1990, 2; Jones 1993, 68; Leonard 1993, 48; Sidebottom 1994, 151; Bailey 1996, 11; Barnatt and Smith 1997, 57; Sidebottom 1999, 218; Elliott 2001–2; Sharpe 2002, 61; Hopkinson et al. 2004, 15; Blair 2005, 315, 342, 469–70; Bergius 2012, 189; Stocker and Everson 2015, 16; Ryder 2016, 13, 14, 16, 17
