Detail of a pre-Conquest stone carving in Cranborne Manor House, formerly in St Mary and St Bartholomew's Church

Date:: 1969

Location:: Cranborne Manor House, Cranborne, East Dorset, Dorset; Show all locations

St Mary and St Bartholomew's Church, Church Street, Cranborne, Dorset

Reference:: DT00739

Type:: Photograph (Negative)

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A print of this image is in the RCHME Inventory Notes for Cranborne, 1 of 2, Dorset V. This image is printed in the RCHME Inventory Volume, Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V East. The 9th century carving is made of limestone and is a fragment of a cross. The fragment was discovered in 1935 in a pond, 150 yards north-east of the church. The origin of the carving is unknown, but is presumably from an early religious building.

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This is part of the Sub-Series: RCH01/091/02 Rchme Inventory Of Dorset, Volume V, East: Small Format Negatives; within the Series: RCH01/091 Rchme Inventory Of Dorset, Volume V, East; within the Sub-Collection: RCH01/01 Rchme Inventory Volumes; within the Collection: RCH01 Royal Commission On The Historical Monuments Of England (Rchme) Archive

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Stone Carving, Early Medieval Manor House