Volume 4: South-East England

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Current Display: Stedham 04, Sussex Forward button Back button
Overview
Present Location
Placed near south wall of nave, outside
Evidence for Discovery
See Stedham no. 1.
Church Dedication
St James
Present Condition
Worn but complete
Description
It has a square head and foot and tapers. There is a median half-round moulding which bifurcates about a third of the way in from each end. Each pair of mouldings diverges and is carried into the corners. At the head a moulding of similar form spans the width of the stone and crosses the median moulding at the point of bifurcation.
Discussion

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

See Stedham no. 1.

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, 486, iii, pl. 101b
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