Volume 4: South-East England
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Current Display: Sompting 19, Sussex 
Overview
Object type: Capital and impost
Measurements: H. c. 46 cm (18 in); W. c. 46 cm (18 in)
Stone type: Yellowish limestone, much weathered; Quarr stone
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 202-204
Corpus volume reference: Vol 4 p. 182-183
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Present Location
In situ externally on the central pilaster of the west face of the tower, just below the belfry windows
Evidence for Discovery
First published in Rickman 1848
Church Dedication
St Mary
Present Condition
Heavily weathered
Description
It is separated from the pilaster by a narrow roll moulding along its lower edge. From the mid-point of this develops a pair of outward-facing volutes. The broad low-relief stems are hollowed, and the scrolls almost touch the lower moulding. The capital supports a damaged impost of rectangular section sculptured in one piece with it.
Discussion
See Sompting no. 16.
Date
Eleventh century
References
Rickman 1848, fig. on xxviii; Lynham 1886, 304; André 1898, 12; Page 1907, 364; Crouch 1910, pl. 37; Jessep 1914, 37; Brown 1925, 201; Fisher 1962, 377; Nairn and Pevsner 1965, 330; Taylor and Taylor 1965 - 78, ii, 558, fig. 273; Taylor and Taylor 1966, 51; Fisher 1970, 176; Gem 1983, 123; Tweddle 1986b, i, 62 - 3, 174 - 5, ii, 474 - 5, iii, pl. 92a; Aldsworth and Harris 1988, 115 - 16, fig. 9
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