A HISTORY OF DERBYSHIRE 



TYMPANA AND LINTELS : Aibford-in-the-Water.^ Over the south doorway of the church 

 here there is a tympanum sculptured with a representation of a tree in the centre, with a 

 beast on each side of it. The tympanum was for many years built into the south wall of the 

 nave outside, but during the alterations in 1869-1870 it was restored to its original position. 

 The lintel of the chancel doorway was also sculptured with a tree surrounded by a garland. 



Ault Hucknall. In the west wall of the nave of the church here is a blocked-up doorway 

 with a sculptured lintel and tympanum. On the former is represented the contest between 

 St. George and the Dragon, 2 the two combatants being separated by a cross. St. George is 

 armed with a sword and a kite-shaped shield. Behind him is an object shaped like a Jew's 

 harp, the meaning of which is not clear. On the typanum to the left is a creature human 

 down to the waist and with the body of a beast below, holding a palm branch in the right 

 hand and a cross in the left. This has been interpreted by Mr. C. E. Keyser, F.S.A., to 

 be St. Margaret bursting out of the body of the dragon, and by other authorities to be a 

 centaur. On the right of the tympanum are two extraordinary beasts, the larger of the two 

 having a cross within a circle of the tail. 



Bohover.* Over the south doorway of the church here there is a tympanum sculptured 

 with a representation of the Crucifixion with the Virgin Mary and St. John on either side. 



Findern.i Built into the north wall of the nave of the church here, on the inside, is a 

 tympanum sculptured with a Maltese cross in the centre on a background of chequer-work ; 

 below this a double row of star pattern ; and on each side at the lower corners a little human 

 figure with the arms akimbo. 



Hognastonf Over the south doorway of the church here there is a tympanum with 

 incised sculpture, representing a bishop with a crozier in one hand and a book in the other ; 

 on the right the Agnus Dei and two birds above ; and on the left three beasts, one of which 

 appears to be a wild boar, another a fox, and the third a wolf. The bishop has a belt round 

 his waist, and on the right side of his skirt below is a projecting object resembling a 

 bag or purse, which is close to the nose of one of the animals. 



Kedleston.* Over the south doorway of the church here there is a tympanum which 

 appears at one time to have been sculptured with a hunting scene, but the only figure that can 

 now be made out is a man on horseback blowing a horn. Along the lower margin of the 

 tympanum is a band of foliage ornament. 



NormantonJ There was formerly built into the south wall of the nave of the old church 

 here, 8 which was pulled down in 1861, the lower part of a tympanum sculptured with a 

 representation of the Crucifixion with the Virgin Mary and St. John. On the right was the 

 Agnus Dei, and on the left three or four figures much defaced. At the extreme lower 

 corners of the tympanum were two little figures, something like those at Findern and 

 Tissington, except that here one held a horn and the other a pastoral staff. 



Parwich. 9 Over the west door of the new church here is a tympanum (which was 

 removed from the old church, pulled down in 1872) sculptured with representations of the 

 Agnus Dei with a bird perched on the head ; a stag trampling on a pair of serpents ; a wild 

 boar ; and a beast with a floriated tail (similar to the one on the Tissington font). 



Swarkestone. There was formerly over the south doorway of the church here a tympanum 

 sculptured with a representation of a tree, with a beast on each side of it, and a serpent at 

 the bottom of it beneath the feet of the beast on the left. The lower part of the tympanum 

 was ornamented with an arcade of nine round-headed arches. 



1'imngtonP Over the south doorway of the church here there is a tympanum sculptured 



1 Bateman, Vestiges ofAntij. of Derbyshire, 182; Allen, Christian Symbolism; Journ. Brit. Arch. 

 Assoc. N.S. vi. 247 ; C. E. Keyser, 'Norman Tympana and Lintels, fig. 43. 



* Gent. Mag. (1799), i- 449 ; Allen, Christian Symbolism, 366 ; Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc. N.S. 

 vi. 250 ; Keyser, Norman Tympana, fig. 145. 



3 Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc. vii. 318 ; Cox, Churches of Derbyshire, i. 100 ; Norman Tympana, fig. 92. 



* Reliquary, iii. 191 ; Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc. N.S. vi. 249 ; Norman Tympana, fig. 23. 



6 Allen, Christian Symbolism, 254; Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc. N.S. vi. 251; Cox, Churches of 

 Derbyshire, ii. 491 ; Norman Tympana, fig. 75. 



6 B.M. Add. MSS. 9463, f. 34 ; Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc. N.S. vi. 252. 



I Reliquary, ii. 5 ; Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc. N.S. vi. 252. 8 Now in south wall of tower. 



9 Reliquary, xxi. 201 ; Allen, Christian SymboRsm, 254; Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc. N.S. vi. 254 ; 

 Norman Tympana, fig. 76. 



10 B.M. Add. MSS. 9463, f. 65 ; Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc. N.S. vi. 256. 



II Cox, Churches of Derbyshire, ii. 449 ; Norman Tympana, fig. 23. 



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