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Abstract
Adel church belonged to Holy Trinity Priory in York, a dependency of Marmoutier abbey, near Tours. The simple building has plentiful sculpture on corbels, doorway and gable, and chancel arch; the programme illustrates the Second Coming of Christ (outside) and the general resurrection (inside). The entrance has suffered from weathering, but is still largely legible; it includes some novelties among its standard iconography, but the chancel arch has many more. Fourth-century baptism addresses by Cyril of Jerusalem are referred to in the capitals of the chancel arch; there are newborn babies carved in the arch itself to represent those resurrected; and the character of beakheads is made clearer. It is suggested that a designer from Marmoutier and workmen from Normandy could have been involved, and that the date would be earlier than c. 1148.
The photographs used for Figures 12, 18–21, 23 and 24 were taken by the late John McElheran for the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. I am grateful to Michael Tisdall for permission to use his picture of the stolen door-pull, Figure 9.
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Rita Wood
Rita Wood has recently published a book entitled Romanesque Yorkshire as an Occasional Paper for the society; an article on Cistercian sculpture at Kirkstall abbey and Elland church is awaited in Medieval Yorkshire. Currently, she is working on the topic of ‘the return to Paradise’ as a major theme of Romanesque sculpture throughout Europe, and on the interpretation of a late tenth-century subject with Ottonian connections, the Jelling Stone in Denmark. Email: [email protected]