The Leeds cross is a collection of fragments of probably tenth-century stone sculpture that has been reassembled into a cross. The fragments were found in the fabric of Leeds Minster when the tower of the old church was demolished in 1838. The architect, Robert Chantrell noticed a collection of carved stones built into the medieval architecture, some of them forming the cross.[1] Representations of the Four Evangelists appear between distinctive interlaced decoration dating to the 10th or 11th centuries.[1] The cross currently stands within the church and is an important example of Anglo-Saxon sculpture. It is also the most complete example of a number of depictions of the legendary smith Weland and Beaduhild, the mother of his child, from tenth-century Yorkshire.[2][3][4]

References

  1. 1 2 Linstrum, Derek (1969). Historic Architecture of Leeds. Oriel Press. p. 6.
  2. ↑ Entry in the online Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture.
  3. ↑ Robert Halstead, 'The Stone Sculpture of Anglo-Scandinavian Yorkshire in its Landscape Context' (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Leeds, 2016), pp. 203-28.
  4. ↑ James T. Lang, ‘Sigurd and Weland in Pre-Conquest Carving from Northern England’, The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, 48 (1976), 83–94.
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