Built into exterior south wall of chancel behind down pipe

First noted by Sidebottom (1994, 230), although it may have been implied by Eeles (1941, 1) in his reference to 'crosses' at Bradbourne (see also Bateman 1848, 194; Allen and Browne 1885, 355). The piece is situated at the point where the Norman chancel was extended eastwards in the thirteenth century, and it is unclear whether it formed part of the Norman fabric, or represents one of the insertions made to assist the joining of the later extension (Eeles 1941, 4–5).

All Saints

Carving on the only visible face (A) is worn, fragmentary and half hidden behind a down-pipe

A (broad): A register of a very worn, quite broad, two-strand interlace pattern on the left-hand side of the stone is contained by two wide flat mouldings that do not continue the full length of the stone. On the right, the stone is plain, seeming never to have been decorated.

B and D (narrow) and C (broad): Inaccessible

The dimensions of the stone and the dressed, but undecorated nature of one part of the face suggest this once formed the lower part of a cross-shaft. At 33 cm (13 in), however, it is more slender than the lower part of Bradbourne 1, which, at its narrowest is 43 cm (17 in). This and the broader, flatter nature of the angle mouldings thus imply that this stone probably represents the lower part of another shaft from the site, which, unlike the surviving portions of no. 1 included interlace in its repertoire of decoration. This in turn, might imply that Bradbourne 2, which also preserves a panel of interlace (albeit of a different type), may have been part of this monument.

Late eighth / ninth century

Sidebottom 1994, 149, 230 (Bradbourne 4)