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Object type: Five volute capitals supporting rerearches of clerestory windows
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Plate numbers in printed volume: None
Corpus volume reference: Vol 12 p. 220-1
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Appendix E item (overlap architectural sculpture).
Five volute capitals supporting rerearches of clerestory windows. The clerestory windows above the nave arcades described above are outlined with a simple arch carrying a fat angle-roll. The angle-rolls are supported on a nook-shaft to either side, each of which has a single in situ capital. The great majority of these capitals, though not identical, are of cubical 'cushion' form, but five of them (north side: second surviving bay from west, western capital; fourth surviving bay, eastern capital; fifth surviving bay, eastern capital; south side: third surviving bay from west, western capital; fifth surviving bay, western capital) are different. In these cases, the necks of the capitals are not prominently worked (as they are in the arcade piers) but are shaped to form a single, small, rolled volute at the outward angle.
If the lower parts of the arcade date from the final decade of the eleventh century (above), it is possible that the capitals of the clerestory date from the first decade of the twelfth, and that they are directly comparable with examples at Lincoln Cathedral and at Branston, Corringham, Harmston, Harpswell and Scartho in rural Lincolnshire (Stocker and Everson 2006, 50–1).
