Volume 5: Lincolnshire

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Current Display: Stow 09, Lincolnshire Forward button Back button
Overview
Present Location
Unknown; not found in 1986
Evidence for Discovery
None
Church Dedication
Not available
Present Condition
Unknown
Description

Davies (1926, 20) catalogues 'a stone, 7 in. by 4 in., with a snake's head upon it'.

Discussion

Appendix C item (lost stones for which no illustration has survived).

Unless (improbably) this is a wayward reference to the decorated window-head, in situ over the single-splayed window in the centre of the west wall of the south transept, which has a moulding with animal's head terminals, there is no secure basis for discussion. The window-head is considerably larger than Davies's dimensions, at approximately 30 × 60 cm (11.75 × 23.5 in). It is stylistically of twelfth-century date and an insertion into the fabric of the south transept.

Date
Uncertain
References
Davies 1926, 20
Endnotes

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