By C. E. Ponting, F.S.A. 



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fringed at the end. 1 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. 2 



3 A shield charged with a chevron engrailed with a rose (?) for 

 difference, between three owls. 3 



4. Eebus — 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. 4J 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. — [Ed.] 

 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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