On the bench at the west end of the north aisle

None; probably found during rebuilding of church between 1856 and 1858

St Peter and Holy Cross

Worn; damaged by reuse

The stone was reshaped as a corbel in the thirteenth century. The shaft is of rectangular section and tapers towards the upper end which has been re-cut to form a conical corbel whose face is on the same plane as face A. The shoulders between the corbel and the shaft are irregularly stepped.

A (broad): On the face of the corbel is a heavily damaged encircled interlace of pattern C, the ends of the diagonals having been cut away by the shaping of the corbel. The rest of the face is undecorated.

B (narrow): Face B is decorated with a single rectangular panel, incomplete above and damaged to the right, which is decorated with interlace, a unit of complete pattern A.

C (broad): Irregularly cut back.

D (narrow): There is a single rectangular panel in the corresponding position to that on face B. This has a plain relief border above, but is damaged to the left, and is filled with an encircled pattern C interlace or ring-knot, with median-incised strands.

Despite the later reshaping of this piece to form a thirteenth-century corbel, there is no doubt that it was originally a cross-shaft of square section. Like the shafts from Bishops Waltham, Hampshire (no.1), Barking, Essex (no. 1), and probably Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, this shaft may have been predominantly interlace decorated. This gives few clues as to date, but the use of rather a thick strand, in one case median- incised, suggests a later rather than earlier date.

Tenth to eleventh century

Page 1911, 414; Atkinson 1938 - 40, 369 - 70; Cox and Jowitt 1949, 181; Green and Green 1951, 45 - 6, pl. XV; Pevsner and Lloyd 1967, 650; Tweddle 1986b, i, 95, 244, 246 - 7, ii, 507 - 8, iii, pls. 114 - 15