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_ fringed at the end.!. The knees are marked by folds of the robe, 
the right in the form of a lozenge, and the left a circle. The beard 
is indicated by a few chisel cuts, and the eyes are encircled by 
strongly marked lines, giving an “owlish” appearance, and the 
whole sculpture is of a distinctly Norman character. 
Several carved stones are built into the wall of the vicarage 
- facing the churchyard :— 
1. A shield charged with a bend between two (?) fleur-de-lys 
or spear-heads. 
2. A tree emanating from a grotesque human head, on the left 
a hart, on the right a bridled bear, both climbing up the 
tree.” 
3  Avshield charged with a chevron engrailed with a rose (?) for 
difference, between three owls.* 
4. Rebus—a tree with leaves, and fruit looking like that of a 
cherry or plum, emanating from a tun. 
5. A shield, plain, over a rose. 
In the garden of the vicarage is the base of a 15th century cross 
2ft. 44 in. square and 3ft. high, very richly worked with two sunk 
panels on each face, within which are carvings which look like 
foliage only, but they are badly weather-worn. The heads of the 
panels have ogee arches with carved crockets and terminals. The 
top is morticed for the stem of the cross about 15in square. The 
base has a deep splay, but this probably had a sub base. 
At the south entrance to the churchyard is a lych-gate of a 
simple but imposing description—it now consists of a plain roof - 
on massive stone walls, but it doubtless once possessed more 
characteristic features. 
1 See also above, p. 281.—[Ep.] 
» 2 Shield No. 275 in Aubrey, Bernard, has the latter charge. 
; 3 The arms of Nicholas, shield 266, Aubrey, are the same, but without the 
mark of difference. 
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