Volume 4: South-East England

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Current Display: Godalming 02, Surrey Forward button Back button
Overview
Present Location
See no. 1.
Evidence for Discovery
Found (with two other fragments since lost) during rebuilding of pre-Conquest west tower arch in 1879
Church Dedication
Sts Peter and Paul
Present Condition
Damaged and worn
Description
Fragment of a slightly tapering drum, dressed flat below, but roughly broken above and to each side. Along the upper and lower edges of the surviving portion of the face is a narrow, plain, raised border. Inside it is a heavily-weathered geometrical fret pattern.
Discussion
The piece is too fragmentary for its function to be determined; however, it matches no. 1 very closely in reconstructed diameter, is made of the same material, and (to judge from its decoration) must belong to the same period. It is, therefore, possible that this piece formed part of the base of GODALMING, Sr. (Sts Peter and Paul) no. 1.
Date
Ninth century
References
Nevill 1880, 282; Malden 1905, 447; Jessep 1913, 28 - 9; Johnston 1913, 33; Mee 1938, 138; Kendrick 1949, 86; Nairn and Pevsner 1971, 256; Bott 1978, 3, 14, pl. 22; Tweddle 1983b, 36; Tweddle 1986b, i, 112, 161, ii, 387, iii, fig. 50, pl. 48b
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