Appendix B item (stones wrongly associated with pre-Conquest period)

Cross with the crucified figure of Christ on both faces, now standing on the sill of the east window in the north aisle. Found in the mid nineteenth century during the digging of a grave (Watson 2010, 25). The cross, carved from gritty oolitic limestone, is very weathered and there is a repaired break just below the arms. It is free-standing and set in a later base; all four arms end in flared terminals. The head of Christ is tilted on both faces, and his body slightly twisted, with bent arms and a pronounced belly, and a short garment rolled and knotted at the waist. Pooley suggested a date for the carving in the eleventh or twelfth century (Pooley 1868, 67), and Verey and Brooks offered a similar date (Verey and Brooks 1999, 476). Watson supports earlier suggestions that this carving was the head of a churchyard cross (Watson 2010, 25–6), but dates the carving to the twelfth century. The present author feels that a more probable date for the style of figure carving would be thirteenth or fourteenth century.