Volume 7: South West England

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Overview
Present Location
Evidence for Discovery
Church Dedication
St Basil
Present Condition
Description

Panel fragment set in east wall immediately below window, with image of Mary Magdalene drying Christ's feet, related in style to the Chichester reliefs (see Zarnecki 1953a). Late eleventh century, Romanesque.

Discussion

Appendix B item (stones wrongly associated with pre-Conquest period).

Date
Late eleventh century
References
Hutchins 1861–73, II, 707, 708; Prior and Gardner 1912, 139; Glynne 1924a, 66; White 1931, lxxvi–viii; Kendrick 1949, 52; Rice 1952, 113; R.C.H.M.(E.) 1952, xxxvi, 251, pl. 6; Zarnecki 1953b, 116–17, pl. XXVIc; Jope 1964, 92n; Newman and Pevsner 1972, 17, 424, pl. 16; Alford 1984, 13–16, 21, pl. 14
Endnotes
None

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