The Corpus: Meliden (Flintshire) 1

Volume 9: Cheshire and Lancashire

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Current Display: Meliden (Flintshire) 1, Cheshire

Overview

Object type: Part of cross-shaft

Measurements: H. 60 cm (23.5 in); W. 36 cm (14 in); D. 18 cm (7 in)

Stone type:

Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 741-3

Corpus volume reference: Vol 9 p. 155

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National Grid Reference of Place of Discovery

SJ c. 065805

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.