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Inchinnan Description of stone
Event ID 1018930
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1018930
Inchinnan 1 (St Conval), Renfrewshire, recumbent cross-slab
Measurements: L 1.52m, W 0.52m at the head tapering to 0.39m, D 0.22,
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NS 4904 6803
Present location: in railed shelter outside Inchinnan New Parish Church.
Evidence for discovery: recorded by Stuart in the mid nineteenth century lying in the graveyard. A new church was built in 1900, and the slab was placed on raised plinths outside the church. It was taken to the New Parish Church when the old church was demolished in 1965 and displayed on a brick plinth in a shelter outside the church.
Present condition: very weathered with some edge damage and the top left corner missing.
Description
This is a slightly tapered rectangular slab, carved in relief only on the upper surface. Within a plain flatband border there is in the upper part of the slab a plain outline cross with an inner incised line and sunken armpits. The cross-arms extend out to the frame, and the spaces between the upper arms and on either side of the shaft are filled with heavy double-beaded interlace.
Date: late ninth to eleventh century.
References: Stuart 1867, pl 75, 1; ECMS pt 3, 458; Radford 1967, 183.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017
