Reused in the nave south wall, exterior. It is in the bottom course of the plinth, three stones from the south-east quoin.

It is likely that the stone was set in its present location during the restoration of 1879–82 under the architect Ewan Christian ((—) 1879–80, lxxv–vi; Pevsner and Williamson 1979, 137). The stone has been re-cut for its current reuse, but whether it had already been reused before then remains unknown.

St James

The stone has been re-cut for reuse as an ashlar along two sides. The visible original surface is considerably weathered.

This stone is a fragment of a much larger block, with a well-defined border moulding running around the two original surviving edges. The angle moulding is near-rectangular in section, and does not represent a fully-formed angle-roll, in contrast to Blyth 1 and North Muskham 1, for example, which might otherwise represent very similar monuments.

Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date)

Such near-rectangular border mouldings are found on Lincolnshire monuments of the eleventh century, including monuments from quarries in the Ancaster area. Rolleston 3 is a Nottinghamshire example (Ills. 84–5). It is possible, then, that the monument represented here dates from the eleventh century. It would have been a large grave-cover, with an undecorated panel within the border moulding. If correctly interpreted as a fragment from the corner of a large 'chest type' grave-cover, the Halloughton fragment should probably be considered to be of eleventh- or twelfth-century date. Despite the fact that it has a distinctively different type of border moulding, the closest parallels for such a monument would be Blyth 1, Mattersey 1 and North Muskham 1 (Ills. 145–6, 153–4, 156–9).

Eleventh or twelfth century

Unpublished