Volume 4: South-East England

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Current Display: Stedham 02, Sussex Forward button Back button
Overview
Present Location
Placed near south wall of nave, outside
Evidence for Discovery
None; probably discovered during reconstruction of church in 1850
Church Dedication
St James
Present Condition
Broken; carving fairly well preserved
Description
The bulk of the tapering cover is lost. The corners of the surviving, narrow, end are rounded. There is a narrow relief border, and a median moulding which is crossed close to the surviving end by a similar moulding spanning the width of the stone, forming a type G1 cross (Cramp 1991, fig. 2).
Discussion

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

That this stone belongs with the other eleventh-century sculptures from this site is suggested by the use of a median ridge crossed near the end. This form of decoration is encountered on near-by grave-covers at Chithurst (e.g. no. 2; Ill. 221), but not on later medieval slabs from the region. Only the relief border is a novelty.

Date
Stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date in eleventh century
References
Butler 1851, 19 - 20, fig. 1; Lower 1870, ii, 176; Page 1907, 365; Johnston 1912, 106; Jessep 1914, 60 - 1; Johnston 1921, 182; Kendrick 1949, 86; Salzman 1953, 84; Fisher 1970, 81 - 2; Tweddle 1986b, i, 90, 220 - 1, ii, 485, iii, pl. 100b
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