In situ on the west and east side of the westernmost arch of the north arcade of the nave

First recorded in R.C.H.M. 1911

All Saints

Good

The jambs of the arch are of square section supporting moulded imposts. The western impost, (a), is returned along the north and south faces of the wall, and ornamented with three cable mouldings twisted alternately in opposite directions. Incised lines indicate the twists. Each moulding projects slightly beyond the one below. Along the upper edge is a narrow moulding of square section. The eastern impost, (b), is of identical form.

The western arch of the north nave arcade originally had a round head which was replaced in 1868 by the present two-centred arch. Presumably it is the survivor from an original arcade of this form opening into a north aisle; the rest of the openings were rebuilt in the fourteenth century.

In form and decoration the imposts compare closely with the surviving example at near-by Walkern (no. 2). The form of the cabled ornament, with modelled strands, each with a median groove of V-shaped profile, is paralleled elsewhere in southern England at Dartford in Kent and on the cross-shaft from London (All Hallows) 1. All of the pieces are arguably of mid eleventh-century date.

Eleventh century

R.C.H.M. 1911, 10, 148; Page 1912c, 134; Pevsner 1953, 162; Smith 1973, 17, 256; Tweddle 1986b, i, 68, 178 - 9, ii, 404, iii, pl. 59a