Volume 7: South West England

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Current Display: Ashton Keynes 1, Wiltshire Forward button Back button
Overview
Present Location
Unknown
Evidence for Discovery
Church Dedication
Holy Cross
Present Condition
Unknown
Description
To much the same period [early tenth century] may be assigned a fragmentary corbel and some plaitwork motifs that adorn the arch of a small doorway at Ashton Keynes in Wiltshire; the arch is cut out of a single block of stone ...' (Rice 1952, 144).
Discussion

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

Not seen on site visit. This is usually assumed to be a Norman or later church throughout (Pevsner and Cherry 1975, 94–5). Probable misidentification by Talbot Rice.

Date
Post conquest(?)
References
Rice 1952, 144
Endnotes
None

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