The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Museum and/or Museum store
Museum and/or Museum store
The display in the Medieval gallery includes 12th-century stonework; other material was seen in store. The sculpture is grouped in this report according to its find-spot.
Provenances 1-3 are excavated sites in Beverley where re-used fragments of Romanesque date were found and identified. Provenance 4 is attested by records and agreements between the parish of Hutton Cranswick and the Yorkshire Museum, York, from where the font is on loan. Provenance 5 is attested by agreements between the parish church of Fangfoss and the Hull Museum, and also by the known history of the pieces while at Birkbeck College, University of London. The large piece of unknown provenance was excavated from the bomb-damage of the former museum in Hull; any records were lost. The small pieces were in store with no known provenance.
See 'Features: Loose Sculpture' for fuller details of all material under the following headings:
Dominican Friary, BeverleyLurk Lane, Beverley33-35 Eastgate, BeverleyHutton Cranswick parish churchFangfoss parish churchUnknown origin, probably within East Riding
For each piece from sites 1 to 3, a reference number used in the relevant publication is given, and then the text is quoted (there is also usually a drawing in the published text). The geological comments were kindly made at my request by Dr Martyn Pedley (Universities of Hull and Leicester) in March 2004.
All items in the Museum's collection are illustrated by courtesy of Hull and East Riding Museum, Hull.
Museum and/or Museum store
Of the objects described here, items A, B and D to J were in the store at the Museum; item C was on display in 2012, but had previously been seen in store; item M was on display in the museum; items K and L were in store at Barnby Dun.