Monument record MDO47718 - Medieval cross, Sydling St Nicholas

(Area SY 64109936). In the Vicarage garden is a "stone carved with a figure bound to a post, and part of a figure shooting an arrow at him; it is perhaps the martyrdom of St Edmund (the top of the head, and presumably the crown, is missing) and may be of C14th date. <1>

SY 63159938. A figured stone, average 0.4 metres square, correctly described in authy 1 except that the second figure, i.e. the one shooting the arrow, is doubtfully discernable. This stone possibly came from the village church. <2>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 233 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(5) The Vicarage, 180 yards N.E. of the church ... In the garden is a stone carved with a figure bound to a post and with part of a figure shooting an arrow at him; it is perhaps the martyrdom of St. Edmund (the top of the head, and presumably the crown, is missing) and may be of 14th-century date.'

<2> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 02-FEB-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453162 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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