Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture in England, Volume 7This analytical catalogue of sculpture from the historic counties of Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire provides a new perspective on the artistic achievement of the late Saxon kingdom. The volume includes individual pieces of the highest quality such as the Bradford-on-Avon and Winterbourne Steepleton angels or the newly discovered figures from Congresbury. Most of the monuments were carved at a time when Wessex art was at its zenith in the tenth and eleventh centuries, a formative period for English cultural identity. This volume sets the sculpture within an historical, topographical and art-historical context, highlighting the close links with contemporary styles in manuscripts and metalwork. Full photographic records of each monument present many new illustrations unique to this volume. An indispensable research tool for all those interested in the early medieval world, this volume is also an authoritative aid for local historians. |
Contents
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND TO THE SCULPTURE | 1 |
Sites mentioned in the intineraries of the kings of Mercia and Wessex before 871 after Hill 1981 | 5 |
Major ecclesiastical sites in southwest England | 7 |
Distribution of stone types used for AngloSaxon sculptures in southwest England | 12 |
REGIONAL GEOLOGY by C R Bristow and B C Worssam | 13 |
Geology of southwest England | 14 |
Outcrop of the Ham Hill Stone | 16 |
Distribution of AngloSaxon sculpture using Doulting stone | 17 |
REGIONAL DISTINCTION AND PROBLEMS OF DATING | 69 |
20 | 72 |
SouthWest England | 75 |
Sites with sculpture in the pre1974 county of Devon | 76 |
68 | 87 |
Sites with sculpture in the pre1974 county of Dorset | 94 |
59 | 111 |
41 | 118 |
Distribution of AngloSaxon sculpture using Bath stone | 19 |
Distribution of AngloSaxon sculpture using Bradford stone 20 | 20 |
Geology of the Portland Formation in the Tisbury and Chilmark areas | 22 |
Topography of southwest England | 24 |
TOPOGRAPHY AND DISTRIBUTION | 25 |
MONUMENT TYPES | 31 |
Drawing of the Glastonbury pyramids as envisaged by Henry Spelman in 1639 | 33 |
Crosshead types in southwest England | 35 |
INTRODUCTION TO THE ORNAMENTAL REPERTOIRE | 41 |
Distribution of sculpture with intertwined lacertine animals in southwest England | 43 |
Animals enmeshed in interlace on stone and in manuscripts | 45 |
Distribution of sculpture with plant ornament in southwest England | 49 |
13 | 51 |
Sites with figural sculpture in southwest England | 56 |
FIGURAL IMAGERY | 57 |
16 | 60 |
Distribution of AngloSaxon and British inscriptions on stone | 62 |
THE INSCRIPTIONS by J Higgitt | 63 |
17 | 66 |
42 | 128 |
Sites with sculpture in the pre1974 counties of Somerset and Bristol | 132 |
Appendixes A to D | 138 |
48 | 146 |
Stones of uncertain provenance | 152 |
69 | 176 |
133 | 180 |
Sites with sculpture in the pre1974 county of Wiltshire | 196 |
O O RENN | 254 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 261 |
69 | 274 |
PHOTOGRAPHIC ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Note on reductions | 277 |
The frontispiece and Figures 18 20 22 were drawn by Yvonne Beadnell Figures 815 were | 16 |
287 | 24 |
337 | 24 |
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Common terms and phrases
Abbey acanthus angels Anglo-Saxon sculpture animal Archaeol Barton St David base Bath stone Bradford-on-Avon Britford capital carved centre century REFERENCES Chalfield Oolite Formation Chew Stoke church clasts Codford Colerne Colyton Congresbury Cramp cross cross-head cross-shaft DATE decorated Devon DISCUSSION Dolton Dorset early East Stour eighth century eleventh century England EVIDENCE FOR DISCOVERY face figure font Foster Glastonbury grave-cover grave-marker head Higgitt ibid Ills incised Inferior Oolite inscribed inscription interlace Jurassic PRESENT CONDITION Kendrick Keynsham knots letters limestone Littleton Drew London manuscripts median-incised medieval metalwork Middle Jurassic Middle Jurassic PRESENT monuments narrow ninth century Okasha Oolite Group ornament panel pattern pellets Pevsner piece plant-scroll Plunkett possible Potterne pre-Conquest PRESENT LOCATION probably Ramsbury Roman rounded scroll shaft Shaftesbury shell fragments Sims-Williams 2003 slab Somerset STONE TYPE strands survives Taylor and Taylor tenth Todber Tweddle upper wall Wareham Wessex Wiltshire Winterbourne Steepleton worn Yellowish grey 5Y Yetminster