This simple, slightly rounded, chamfered capital is at present set upside down. The capital is carved integrally with a bellied shaft of slightly oval section, and separated from the shaft by a roll moulding 4 cm (1.6 in) wide.

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

The chamfered capitals, Syde 2 and 3, are like simple 'cushion' capitals and as such they could have been carved at almost any point in the eleventh or early twelfth century. However, bellied (or baluster) shafts are a common feature of pre-Conquest buildings. They are used, for example, as mid-wall shafts in the double windows on both sides of the late Anglo-Saxon nave at Worth, Sussex (Taylor and Taylor 1965, ii, 688–93, figs. 353, 354; Gem and Keen 1981, 15). Moulded baluster shafts, dated to the first half of the eleventh century, were recovered from excavations at St Edmund's Abbey, Suffolk (Gem and Keen 1981). Syde 2 and 3 could, therefore, be late Anglo-Saxon in date. In the church, the south doorway (now blocked) carries a huge, flat lintel and it has been suggested that this could be an Anglo-Saxon doorway, the surviving element of a stone church standing on the site before the present late eleventh-century building (Verey and Brooks 1999, 680). This suggestion receives support from the presence of the foliated capital (Syde 1, p. 250, Ills. 441–5) in the churchyard on the north side of the church. Alternatively nos. 2 and 3 might have been part of a now replaced chancel associated with the surviving late eleventh-century nave. An eleventh-century date is, therefore, probable and, if Syde 2 and 3 are contemporary with no. 1, this could have been in the first half of the century.