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Object type: Set of thirty-two pier and respond bases
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Plate numbers in printed volume: None
Corpus volume reference: Vol 12 p. 220
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Appendix E item (overlap architectural sculpture).
Set of thirty-two pier and respond bases. The bulky arcade piers of the nave arcades are mostly of simple unmoulded squared forms, but the half-round responds beneath the capitals (no. 2 above) sit on an in situ set of fine moulded bases. The bases to the shafts supporting the (later) vault facing into the nave are also moulded and assume a similar range of forms. The bases to the western arch of the crossing pier are no longer visible. The mouldings of these bases extend (or extended) onto the 'back-plate' of the respond, and are typically either of lower torus and scotia form, or of a more purely Attic sequence with two (or more) tori and a scotia or scotias. Sometimes the torus is doubled, and in two cases (south arcade, westernmost surviving bay, west base, and north arcade, fifth bay from west, west base) the lower torus carries a finely carved double cable-moulding.
Like the capitals (above), it is likely that the base mouldings date from the final decade of the eleventh century (Rigold 1977, 120).
