Church of St Mary, Stockport, Greater Manchester: Tree-Ring Analysis of Timbers of the Chancel Roof
Author(s): Alison Arnold, Robert Howard
Analysis was undertaken on 12 samples taken from the timbers of the chancel roof. Site sequence STKCSQ01 contains three samples and spans the period AD 1019–1133. Site sequence STKCSQ02 contains eight samples and spans the period AD 1099–1293. Additionally, a single sample (STK-C04) was dated individually to span the period AD 1017–1133. Only one of the dated samples has the heartwood/sapwood, which gives an estimated felling date for the timber represented of AD 1308–33. It is thought quite likely that the other samples were also taken from timbers felled at this time with those with last-measured heartwood ring dates in the twelfth century possibly representing the inner portion of longer lived trees, thus indicating an early fourteenth-century date for the construction of the extant chancel roof.
- Report Number:
- 24/2011
- Series:
- Research Department Reports
- Pages:
- 39
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology Standing Building
