The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Private garden
Private garden
12thc arch of unknown provenance reset as a garden feature.
Private garden
Two pieces of twelfth-century date, from a domestic site in Askham Bryan, North Yorkshire. They have used as garden ornaments, but are now going to be taken indoors.
The photos were taken with the objects on card marked in 0.1m squares.
Private garden
Copeland became part of the diocese of Carlisle in 1856.
The cross, called the 'Cross Lacon', along with its shaft, is carved from one piece of stone and is of wheel head type with the top arm missing. It is presently sited in a private garden S of the stables (called also the Dower House) of Rheda Mansion in Rheda Park. Rheda is an area located a short distance SW of the centre of Frizington (previously spelt Frisington). The mansion of Rheda was sold in the 1950s and demolished in the 1970s; only the stables and a lodge cottage now surviving. The cross had been moved to this site in 1911, as inscribed on the modern base. But before it was moved to this site, it had already been shifted to a garden wall of Rheda East Lodge, near the S gate, for security reasons. Prior to this, and at least as early as 1774, it was sited at a place called Crosslacon, marked on the map of Thomas Donald of that date as ‘Croslakin’. In 1860, it was still located at Crosslacon, near the residence of Thomas Dixon, whose seat was at Rheda, Rheda having been acquired by the Dixons through marriage in 1617. The Dixons built a 17th-c mansion, which was then rebuilt in 1881-83 and much enlarged in 1900-06. Although in 1867, on the Ordinance Survey Map, the cross was marked again as being on the same site as in 1774, shown located along the road which has since been numbered B5294, it appears that Thomas Dixon was responsible later in the 19thc for moving the cross to a garden wall of Rheda East Lodge. It has also been stated that the reason it was moved was due to its being repeatedly attacked by people throwing stones at it and causing damage. In its first location, the cross was secured in the ground by rocks, but no proper base stone was found. The existing base was made when the cross was moved to its present site, now the gardens of a modern house but formerly the gardens of the Rheda Mansion House.