Volume 4: South-East England

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Overview
Present Location
Lost
Evidence for Discovery
Removed from apex of west gable in 1903
Church Dedication
St Mary
Present Condition
Unobtainable
Description
No description or illustration of the piece survives.
Discussion

Appendix C item (lost stones for which no illustration has survived).

Fisher records that Johnston believed this to be a forgery, but it is the modern, interlace-decorated font base, erroneously identified in the literature as the gable cross, which Johnston states to have been carved by the then vicar's daughter, not the gable cross itself. The cross was put on the vicarage rockery and is now lost.

Date
Pre-Conquest
References
Johnston 1921, 187 - 8, 88, n.; Nairn and Pevsner 1965, 362; Steer 1976a, 1; Jessep 1914, 56
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Endnotes

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