Volume 4: South-East England

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Current Display: Lavendon 02, Buckinghamshire Forward button Back button
Overview
Present Location
Built into the south-east quoin of the tower, abutting no. 1
Evidence for Discovery
See Lavendon no. 1.
Church Dedication
St Michael
Present Condition
Weathered
Description

It is roughly broken to the left and to the rear.

A: There is a low-relief border along the upper and lower edges; the decoration is a fragmentary interlace, perhaps closed-circuit pattern D. The east face is dressed flat.

Discussion
As with Lavendon no. 1, the size and decoration are consistent with a square cross-shaft. It may even have belonged to the same shaft as no. 1; it employs similar closed-circuit patterns, again suggestive of a late pre-Conquest date.
Date
Tenth to eleventh century
References
Taylor and Taylor 1965 - 78, i, 376; Tweddle 1986b, i, 112, 248, ii, 402 - 3, iii, pl. 57b
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