Volume 10: The West Midlands

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Current Display: Syde 3, Gloucestershire Forward button Back button
Overview
Present Location
Beside (to the south of) the steps leading from the eastern entrance to the churchyard.
Evidence for Discovery
See Syde 2.
Church Dedication
St Mary the Virgin
Present Condition
Good
Description

As with Syde 2, 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 3.5 cm (1.4 in) wide.

Discussion

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

See Syde 2, for which no. 3 is a pair.

Date
Probably eleventh century; possibly early twelfth century
References
Unpublished
Endnotes

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