figure;
statue
- Museum number
- 1981,1102.1
- Description
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Figure; limestone; Romanesque; male, bearded and with shoulder-length hair; full-length drapery and holding a book, perhaps an apostle or prophet; severely weathered and broken; breaks between head and shoulders; torso and waist; an area cut flat behind; base circular for a rounded socle; carved to be set against a wall perhaps in a niche; modern cement joints.
- Production date
- 1180 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 995 millimetres
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Width: 25 centimetres
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Depth: 19 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2013 28 Nov - present, Norwich Castle Museum, Norman Connections LT loan
- Acquisition date
- 1981
- Acquisition notes
- Until the 1930's this figure stood in the garden of Place House, Shepherdswell, Kent; on stylistic grounds, probably from the nearby church of Barfreston, perhaps from one of the niches in the east façade gable.
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1981,1102.1
