Volume 4: South-East England

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Current Display: Hadstock 02a–f, Essex Forward button Back button
Overview
Present Location
Opening into the south porticus
Evidence for Discovery
First recorded by Leach in 1913
Church Dedication
St Botolph
Present Condition
Very badly damaged, with a large part of the capitals and imposts on both sides made up in plaster
Description
The jambs, resting on stepped plinths of four orders, are of square section. Each has a pair of angle shafts which support cushion capitals, (a - d), ornamented like those of the north door (Hadstock, Ess. (St Botolph) no. 1a - b). At each side the capitals support an impost returned along the north and south faces of the wall (e - f). Both imposts are of fundamentally square section with a prominent moulding of sub-rectangular section along the lower edge. The vertical faces have leaf ornament similar to that on the imposts of the north door (Hadstock, Ess. (St Botolph) no. 1c - d).
Discussion
Rodwell has suggested that the whole arch is a thirteenth-century construction reusing Roman material for the lower order of the plinth, combined with the angle shafts, capitals and imposts from a pre-Conquest arch. Fernie, however, believes the whole arch to be of a single date, and in situ. For further discussion see Hadstock no. 1a–e.
Date
Mid eleventh century
References
R.C.H.M. 1916, 144, pl. facing xxviii; Clapham 1930, 130, pl. 44; Cobbett 1937, 44 - 5, pl. IIIb; King 1942 - 5, 30; Pevsner 1954, 200; Fisher 1962, 302; Taylor and Taylor 1965 - 78, i, 275; Taylor and Taylor 1966, 36, 50; Radford 1973, 134; Rodwell 1976, 56, 62, 69; Rodwell 1981, 128, pl. 60; Fernie 1983a, pl. II; Tweddle 1986b, i, 66 - 7, 177 - 8, ii, 391 - 2, iii, pls. 51a - 52b
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