Volume 7: South West England

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Overview
National Grid Reference of Place of Discovery
SY914819
Present Location
Evidence for Discovery
Church Dedication
St Peter
Present Condition
Description

Part of a recumbent cross-slab with sloping sides and debased foliate decoration, in south transept of parish church. Recorded in the British Museum photographic index of Anglo-Saxon sculpture, but clearly post-Conquest; possibly the stone mentioned in R.C.H.M.(E.) 1970a and dated c. 1300.

Discussion

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

Date
Post-Conquest
References
?R.C.H.M.(E.) 1970a, 43; ?Newman and Pevsner 1972, 156
Endnotes
None

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