Volume 10: The West Midlands

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Current Display: Garway 2, Herefordshire Forward button Back button
Overview
Present Location
External in the east wall of the chancel
Evidence for Discovery
Recorded by Watkins (1918–20, 207). Probably built into wall during its construction.
Church Dedication
St Michael
Present Condition
Weathered but quite good
Description

Incised cross on stone panel. The long-stemmed cross is quite deeply incised and has two horizontal cross-arms with crosslets carved at the end of each arm. The lower cross-arm is wider than the upper arm.

Discussion

Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date)

See Garway 1.

Date
Might be seventh/ninth century, but recently dated twelfth/thirteenth century
References
Watkins 1918–20, 207; Marshall 1927–9, 101; Pevsner 1963, 136; Leonard 2005, 158; Redknap and Lewis 2007, 555–6, Dubia 12a–b
Endnotes

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