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Irises & Laburnum- 📷 19.05.2025

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Yellow irises & yellow laburnum.
May 20, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Cross-head. Early 10th C
Crucifixion & seated Christ

Corpus of Anglo Saxon Stone Sculpture says “Christ in Majesty” & two seated figures are like Irish examples. See ALT text.

Sadly, stored high up on a window sill. St Oswald’s Church, #ThorntonSteward #Yorkshire

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The Corpus of Anglo Saxon Stone Sculpture website. “This wheel-headed cross must date from the period of the Hiberno-Norse colonisation of this region. The ring-head is diagnostic of that period and not only is the Crucifixion in the Irish position on the cross-head but the reverse face has a Christ in Majesty or Judgement scene in the manner of many Irish high crosses. The portrait carving is very plastic: modelled and standing in relief, unlike most crosses in the region at this period. A further Celtic trait is the pair of confronting seated figures who may well be SS Paul and Anthony, the founders of monasticism in the desert. This is a common motif in Ireland: for example, the cross of SS Patrick and Columba at Kells, Co. Meath, where the scene occurs in exactly the position as at Thornton Steward, on the lateral arm. It also occurs in some Manx and Pictish contexts, though the triplet of images on this piece and its form strongly suggest an Irish source.”
May 25, 2025 at 7:57 AM