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Object type: Doorway with bases and imposts
Measurements: H. c. 18 cm (7 in); W. 18 cm (7 in); D. 5 cm (2 in)
Stone type: Grey (with a greenish tinge and a variable yellow or red-brown lichen coating) limestone, composed of close-packed shell-fragment moulds; Quarr stone, Bembridge Formation, Palaeogene, Tertiary; Isle of Wight
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 442-446
Corpus volume reference: Vol 4 p. 258
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The doorway of which the surviving stripwork would have formed the outer surround has disappeared in a later blocking and is covered by render.
The semicircular arch is supported at each side on an impost block. The eastern one, (a) (Ill. 445), has an outer face decorated with a broad median roll moulding, flanked above by a narrower roll moulding with a vertical fillet above and below. Beneath is a similar group of mouldings. The sides of the block are undecorated. The western impost, (b), was probably of identical form, but is more heavily weathered, blurring and obscuring the detail.
The imposts are carried on pilasters. Each terminates in a bulbous base (Ills. 444, 446) standing on a square block, and separated from the pilaster by a roll moulding. The lowest element of the pilaster is in each case carved from the same piece of stone as the base.
