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Inchinnan Description of stone
Event ID 1018931
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1018931
Inchinnan 2 (St Conval), Renfrewshire, cross-shaft fragment
Measurements: H 1.52m, W 0.51m at the base tapering upwards to 0.38m, D 0.18m
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. It seems likely that it has been re-used as a recumbent graveslab, perhaps in the seventeenth century.
Present condition: this portion of a shaft is broken at the point where it narrows into the (missing) cross-head, and it lacks its base. It is heavily weathered and face C has flaked away.
Description
This almost rectangular fragment was carved in relief on all four main faces, though only faces A, B and D survive. It tapers slightly towards the top, where there are shoulders sloping towards the cross-head. Each face has a cable-moulded border and is divided into three panels of heavy interlace patterns by broad plain bands.
Date: late ninth to eleventh century.
References: Stuart 1867, pl 75, 2; ECMS pt 3, 458; Radford 1967, 183.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017
