Reused in the external west jamb of a blocked doorway at the west end of the chancel north wall: the stone is the fourth jamb stone above ground level.

No direct evidence. A restoration of c. 1846 demolished a south aisle but left the essentially medieval fabric of the nave and chancel intact (Cox 1924, 161; Harding 1937, 46–7). The doorway in itself has no distinctive or datable features: most architecture details of the building are Early English/thirteenth century (Pevsner and Harris 1964, 270–1).

St Margaret

Poor; weathered and pitted, and with surface damage from its location of reuse

Only the part of one decorated broad face now visible in the reveal of the doorway is certainly original. The remainder may have been recut for the reuse and four sides are built in. There is a simple chamfer cut along the free arris as moulding for the doorway.

A (broad): Decorated in low relief with a cross of type E6 set within an incised circle of 19 cm (7.5 in) diameter.

Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date).

The form of the original monument is not certain. If a marker, it is clearly not the disc-head and shouldered type of the pair at Beelsby (nos. 1 and 2, Ills. 392, 394) and at Cabourne (no. 1, Ill. 396), and is likely to have been a simple rectangular form. But the E6 (or E8) cross-type is found locally on Beelsby 1 and Cabourne 1, despite the different monument shape. Simple markers of this decorative type are known in north-east England, as at Norham 18 (Cramp 1984, pl. 248, 1374) and Woodhorn 3 (ibid., pls. 257, 1401 and 258, 1403), and have been assessed as of later eleventh century or more generally overlap date. The local Lindsey examples are standardly in Tealby Limestone, whose use is typically post-Conquest. The reuse of this piece and Hawerby 2 (q.v.) may give a thirteenth-century terminus ante quem.

Twelfth century

Unpublished