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Object type: Tympanum
Measurements: N/a
Stone type: N/a
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 494
Corpus volume reference: Vol 5 p. 311
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Reset, along with its enclosing twelfth-century arch, over south nave doorway; decorated with an equal-armed cross of type E10 within a circle, with a type (a) ring linking the arms and a (defaced) human figure holding a staff, plus a tight-packed jumble of motifs including: to the left a rosette of eight petals in a circle, a fan-shaped arrangement of six or seven long leaves with scooped centres plus the truncated tips of a similar motif, a ring-twist pattern set on a square grid with corner loops, and the edge of a further interlace or branched motif: to the right an area of indented chevron giving the effect of tegulation, an acanthus spray, an illogically executed simple diagonal crossed loop or three-stranded ring-twist in a circle, and a second ring-twist on a square grid like that to the left but set within a circle.
Appendix E item (Overlap architectural sculpture).
