English, 12th century

There is wear, weathering and dirt to the surface consistent with age and placement outside with a few minor chips to the edges. There are losses and some surface restorations. There are a few remainders of polychromy.
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RELATED LITERATURE
G. Zarnecki, Later English Romanesque sculpture.1140-1210, London, 1953, fig. 46; M. Thurlby, The Herfordshire school of Romanesque sculpture, Logaston, 1999, pp. 15, fig. 44 and 31-2, fig. 45