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Object type: Two joining fragments of string-course
Measurements: H. 14 < 15 cm (5.5 < 5.9 in); W. 55 cm (21.6 in); D. 21 < 22 cm (8.3 < 8.7 in)
Stone type: Greyish orange 10YR 7/4 shelly oolite the ooliths being supported by a sparry matrix. Some 20 mm thick layers of very shelly sparry oolite. Ooliths 0.2 to 1 mm in size and shell debris up to 10 mm. Shell debris mainly bivalves with some rhynchonellids and gastropods. Bedding parallel to string-course. White Limestone Formation, Great Oolite Group, Middle Jurassic.
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 53; Fig. 20M
Corpus volume reference: Vol 10 p. 143
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Unknown. Mentioned by Dobson (1933, 266), and described by Rudd (1937, 114, pl. VIII) as 'the remains of a Saxon Cross-shaft in the south porch'. Perhaps discovered during one of the nineteenth-century restorations (see Bisley 2 above).
The panel of interlace is contained within simple round-section borders at the top and bottom. The decoration consists of two strands of median-incised interlace carefully carved in a running series of loops (half-pattern A) with a focal 'knot' near one end. The design continues off both ends of the stone.
This section of string-course carries a different design to Bisley All Saints 2 and 3 (see also no. 2 for related discussion).
