A Grave-Marker at Kirby Hill, North Riding

Abstract

The grave-marker has recently been mounted with three other pre-Conquest stones in the tower-space at the church of All Saints, Kirby Hill. Only the best-preserved face of the stone can be seen, but this is of more than local interest, since its two motifs suggest some cultural connections across the apparent barrier of the Norman Conquest.

Keywords:

• Pre-Conquest
• Norman Conquest
• post-Conquest
• Agnus Dei
• Last Judgment
• grave-marker
• prayer

Acknowledgments

It was only by chance that this stone came to my notice, and I would like to thank Chris Bond and Paul Thornley for the opportunity their Zoom meeting provided. Robin Downes, the CRSBI fieldworker in Somerset, has been most helpful. Thanks also to Dr Derek Craig for fielding some of my queries about this item and providing Figure 2. Richard McElheran was helpful about the material for Figure 4. Opinions expressed are mine.

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Rita Wood

Rita Wood is a fieldworker for the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. She has published about 40 articles on Romanesque sculpture, and two books, Romanesque Yorkshire (2012, for this society), and a general work, Paradise: the World of Romanesque Sculpture (2017).