Volume 6: Northern Yorkshire

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Current Display: Leake 02, Yorkshire North Riding Forward button Back button
Overview
Present Location
Evidence for Discovery
Church Dedication
Present Condition
Description

Backturned animal in flat relief, biting its knotted tail within a circular panel, in exterior wall of south aisle, east of the porch and adjacent to no. 3; twelfth century.

Discussion

Appendix B item (stones wrongly associated with pre-Conquest period). [1]

Date
References
Grainge 1859, 251; Morris, J. 1904, 237; Bogg 1909, 187; Thompson 1913, 231–2; Page, W. 1914, 417; Collingwood 1915, 257–8, 277, fig. b on 257; Green 1928, 504–5; Morris, J. 1931, 238 (12); Mee 1941, 141; Pevsner 1966, 227
Endnotes
[1] All these entries are by D.C., except where noted.

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