The Corpus: Great Hale 03

Volume 5: Lincolnshire

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Current Display: Great Hale 03, Lincolnshire

Overview

Object type: Set of four belfry capitals

Measurements: N/a

Stone type: N/a

Plate numbers in printed volume: N/a

Corpus volume reference: Vol 5 p. 311

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Present Location

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Evidence for Discovery

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Church Dedication

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Present Condition

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Description

Two (E and N) of volute type, two (S and W) of cushion type; all decorated with runs of upright leaves of convex rather than concave form, on the S capital in two unequal rows, on the N capital elaborated with pelleting. Bases invisible.

Discussion

Appendix E item (Overlap architectural sculpture).

Date

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References

Freeman 1849, 211; (—) 1895–6c, lxvi; Sutton 1903–4, 94; Cox 1924, 152–3; Brown 1925, 412–13, 455, fig. 192, nos. XII–XV; Fisher 1962, 251, 278, fig. 26a–d; Pevsner and Harris 1964, 552; Taylor and Taylor 1965, 277, fig. 121B; Taylor 1978, 1050; Pevsner et al. 1989, 330; Tweddle et al. 1995, 65, 180

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