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Object type: Romanesque impost
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Corpus volume reference: Vol 8 p. 286
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Appendix B item (Stones wrongly associated with pre-Conquest period)
A Romanesque impost on a plinth at north side of east end of the nave was thought by Morris (1911, 89) to be pre-Conquest, and by Pevsner (1959, 86) to be Norman but a cross-base. It has the head of a snake with a round eye, a large snout and thin down-curling lower jaw and a body which meanders around all three remaining faces. There are traces of red paint on two sides. It is, however, clearly post-Conquest and, as Collingwood (1915a, 135) thought, can be paralleled at Kirkstall Abbey where late twelfth-century imposts of the tabernacle in a chapel of the south transept of the Cistercian building have been described as 'curiously Saxon looking' (Pevsner 1959, 340).
