Volume 4: South-East England
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Current Display: Sompting 21, Sussex 
Overview
Object type: Capital [1]
Measurements: H. c. 38 cm (15 in); W. c. 23 cm (9.1 in); D. c. 62 cm (24.4 in)
Stone type: Pale brown, glauconitic, medium-grained, quartzose sandstone; Hythe beds, Lower Greensand Group, Lower Cretaceous; Petersfield to Pulborough area
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 209-212
Corpus volume reference: Vol 4 p. 183-184
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Present Location
In situ on the mid-wall shaft of the westernmost belfry window on the north face of the tower
Evidence for Discovery
First published in Rickman 1848
Church Dedication
St Mary
Present Condition
Worn and probably partially restored with new stone
Description
See Sompting no. 20.
Discussion
The upper part of the capital may be a replacement. See also Sompting no. 20.
Date
Eleventh century
References
Rickman 1848, fig. on xxvii; Crouch 1910, pl. 39; Page 1907, fig. on 363; Brown 1925, fig. 26.VI; Clapham 1930, 135; Clapham 1935a, 405 - 7; Nairn and Pevsner 1965, 330; Taylor and Taylor 1965 - 78, ii, 558, fig. 273; Taylor and Taylor 1966, 51; Fisher 1970, 179 - 80; Gem 1973, ii, 493, 495; Gem 1983, 125, 128; Tweddle 1986b, i, 65, 174, ii, 477, iii, pl. 93b; Aldsworth and Harris 1988, 117, fig. 11a
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