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Object type: Possible 'isolated architectural fragments'
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Corpus volume reference: Vol 10 p. 348
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Appendix B item (stones wrongly associated with pre-Conquest period)
Possible 'isolated architectural fragments', listed by Hingley et al. 1995, 70 with a reference to Pevsner and Wedgwood 1966. However this account merely says that 'The W and E arches [of the Norman crossing] are single-stepped and the capitals which are still recognizable decorated with small figures besides (in one case) rather wild interlace' (Pevsner and Wedgwood 1966, 478).
Nothing was seen on a visit to the church by the present author, except for a rather odd and very explicit sheela-na-gig figure, with legs splayed and one arm held back by a flanking figure, which is carved on the southern capital of the crossing arch. It is possible that this is, in fact, not a fertility figure but a martyrdom, and that the strange circular feature on the figure's right, which seems to be enmeshed in interlace and behind which stands a second flanking figure, is an attribute of torture. The whole scene is very dissimilar to that on the northern capital on the arch, but they are probably contemporary and they are certainly not Anglo-Saxon.
