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Object type: Architectural fragment [1]
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Corpus volume reference: Vol 9 p. 268
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Appendix B item (stones wrongly associated with pre-Conquest period)
Architectural fragment. Set longitudinally into the external east wall of the church below the central east window, 75 cm (29.5 in) above the ground; weathered. First recorded by Baines (1831–6, iv, 240). The border for the single surviving panel survives at the base and, partially on the right side. Decoration consists of two full-length figures, set side by side and separated by a vertical moulding which forks at the top of the panel. These figures, flat carved, have oval faces and their feet overlap the lower border. The left-hand figure wears a flaring dress reaching well down the legs and has her right hand on the hip. The left hand is raised towards the head and a narrowing sleeve falls from the elbow. There is a V-shaped ?belt at (and below) waist level whilst the lower part of the dress appears to carry lightly-carved decoration. The other figure is dressed in a short kirtle which leaves the knees bare. Both hands reach down to the lower part of the body and a bar (or belt) crosses the waist. The left hand appears to grasp a thin object which curves towards the central moulding.
Pollard and Pevsner (2006, 533) claim this carving as possibly Anglo-Saxon and identify the scene as St Paul and the commandant of the Jerusalem cohort. Bedlington, Northumberland, provides a possible pre-Norman parallel (Cramp 1984, pl. 159.820) but the style of dress and of carving are more likely to be post-Conquest. This piece has been accepted by the Romanesque corpus (CRSBI forthcoming). Twelfth century.
Appendix B item (stones wrongly associated with pre-Conquest period)
Architectural fragment. Set longitudinally into the external east wall of the church below the central east window, 75 cm (29.5 in) above the ground; weathered. First recorded by Baines (1831–6, iv, 240). The border for the single surviving panel survives at the base and, partially on the right side. Decoration consists of two full-length figures, set side by side and separated by a vertical moulding which forks at the top of the panel. These figures, flat carved, have oval faces and their feet overlap the lower border. The left-hand figure wears a flaring dress reaching well down the legs and has her right hand on the hip. The left hand is raised towards the head and a narrowing sleeve falls from the elbow. There is a V-shaped ?belt at (and below) waist level whilst the lower part of the dress appears to carry lightly-carved decoration. The other figure is dressed in a short kirtle which leaves the knees bare. Both hands reach down to the lower part of the body and a bar (or belt) crosses the waist. The left hand appears to grasp a thin object which curves towards the central moulding.
Pollard and Pevsner (2006, 533) claim this carving as possibly Anglo-Saxon and identify the scene as St Paul and the commandant of the Jerusalem cohort. Bedlington, Northumberland, provides a possible pre-Norman parallel (Cramp 1984, pl. 159.820) but the style of dress and of carving are more likely to be post-Conquest. This piece has been accepted by the Romanesque corpus (CRSBI forthcoming). Twelfth century.
