The larger stone was discovered amongst the rubble when the east wall was being restored in 1875 and is thought to be a thousand years old.
As one sees, running late in October, the light was far from ideal, when I took these photos, so beneath one the right of my photo I have attached photos of someone who was more lucky in making them..
On the left the detail of the stone with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. See the Ringerike style spiral form of the snake approaching the skirt of Eve and also the Ringerike style depiction of the branches with leaves. Compare with the stone in Ringerike style found in churchyard of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London.. The depection on the stone with Adam and Eve may be of a cruder Anglo-Scandinavian form, but it is still recognisable as so.
Link to blog November 7th 2015
In the forthcoming blog I take you to a visit to Kendal Museum in Kendal, Cumbria with among other interesting things, an intruiging female who is pointing out quite explicitally...
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