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Object type: Window-head. Stone wrongly associated with pre-conquest period
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Corpus volume reference: Vol 7 p. 192
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Window-head on north-west side of nave with 'dragon slayer' carving. The scene seems to have been adapted to fit the window-head, which with its heavy cable moulding is plausibly Romanesque, although Pevsner (1958a, 304) says 'it looks more Saxon than Norman' and others have supported this view (Mills 2003). Nevertheless the little figure in the short kirtle is very like the dragon slayer on the Bury St Edmunds Abbey capital dated twelfth-century, and as George Zarnecki says, 'The subject is one of the most popular in Romanesque art' (Zarnecki et al. 1984, 162, ill. 117).
Appendix B item (stones wrongly associated with pre-Conquest period).
