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Object type: Architectural feature or ?hogback
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Corpus volume reference: Vol 9 p. 153
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Appendix C item (lost stones for which no illustration has survived)
Cox (1894, 177) described 'a portion of a Saxon building, most likely the jamb of a doorway' which was dug from a grave in the churchyard, near the western end of the church. It was 'ornamented with two bands of mouldings, each containing three half rounds, with a flat space separating the two groups. The central member of each group is worked into a cable moulding. It is now much weathered on this face, showing it to have been an external feature. The stone has been used a second time, in the building of the subsequent Norman church. The half of the head of a small Norman window has been worked in it, cutting across the original mouldings ... the window is not prepared for glazing, and the face of the stone, originally the back, is scored with radiating lines, copying the voussoirs of an arch' (ibid.).
This stone does not appear to have survived. If the Norman nature of the window was correctly identified then a pre-Norman date for the original carving is likely. Was this another hogback?
