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Object type: Set of two south door capitals
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Plate numbers in printed volume: None
Corpus volume reference: Vol 12 p. 221-2
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Appendix E item (overlap architectural sculpture).
Set of two south door capitals. In situ. Two early nook-shaft capitals, supporting a crude roll moulding in the arch head. The east capital is badly damaged, but traces of the angle volute are visible. A geometric pattern that feeds off the capital itself extends across the capital's back-plate. The west capital, though in better condition, has also suffered damage on its angle volute. This was probably decorated with concentric circles — like those on the chancel arch capitals at Calverton — as, to its north side, is a second well-preserved volute decorated in this way. Between the damaged and well-preserved volutes, on the east face, is the remains of a row of 'chevron' decoration, below the boldly chamfered abacus (on a separate stone). To the west of the angle volute there is no third volute, but instead a zone of 'chequerboard' decoration. West again and not contiguous with this decoration, complex, narrow-stranded interlace decorates the back-plate as a separate panel. These capitals are discussed further on pp. 70–1 above.



