Volume 4: South-East England
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Current Display: Boarhunt 01, Hampshire 
Overview
Object type: Window surround
Measurements: H. 73 cm (28.7 in); W. 47 cm (18.5 in); D. Built in Aperture: H. 56 cm (22 in); W. 18 cm (7 in)
Stone type: Yellowish-grey (2.5Y 7/3), shell-fragment limestone, much weathered and lichen-coated; Quarr stone, Bembridge Formation, Palaeogene, Tertiary; Isle of Wight
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 420
Corpus volume reference: Vol 4 p. 251
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Present Location
In situ in north window of chancel
Evidence for Discovery
First recorded in Irvine 1877
Church Dedication
St Nicholas
Present Condition
Complete but weathered
Description
It is the mid-wall slab of a semicircular headed, double-splayed window. Around the exposed edge of the external face are two cable mouldings, twisted in opposite directions. These are separated by a broad undecorated zone from the chamfered edge of the aperture.
Discussion
Irvine records that when he saw it a small part of the interior face of the slab was visible behind a monument, and decorated in the same way as the exterior face. The inner splay has since been filled and plastered.
Date
Tenth to eleventh century
References
Irvine 1877b, 373, 379, fig. facing 368; ( --- ) 1890 - 3, 255 - 6, fig. on 255; Nisbett 1891 - 3, 315; Brown 1900b, 337; Brown 1925, ii, 105, fig. 56; Page 1908a, 146; Cox and Jowitt 1949, 50; Green and Green 1951, 3, n., 4, diagram 1; Taylor and Taylor 1965 - 78, i, 76 - 7; Taylor and Taylor 1966, 29, 49; Pevsner and Lloyd 1967, 111; Tweddle 1986b, i, 71, 166, 169 - 70, ii, 355 - 6, iii, pl. 24
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