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Object type: Triangular-headed panel
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Corpus volume reference: Vol 10 p. 377
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Appendix B item (stones wrongly associated with pre-Conquest period)
A worn triangular-headed panel above the external south door, partially obscured by the roof timbers of the fourteenth-century porch. It is made from two stones, both with a broad deep border and an irregular chamfer along the inner edge. On the lower stone is a creature carved in low relief. It has a long neck, a high crest on its head and what appears to be a beak; it is also said to have four legs. On the triangular upper stone there are the remains of a series of broad, curving, concentric lines carved in shallow relief. A drawing of the panel made in 1812 (not seen by the present author) is said to show a winged creature, with claws and curling tail, and a tree in the background. Bridges compares this panel to the beast at nearby Eastham which he suggests is of Herefordshire School type. Almost certainly twelfth century.
