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Discovered built into the wall above the chancel arch of St Peter’s in 1864, the Anglo-Saxon sculpture now stands against the north chancel wall. A single, tapering block of Bath stone from the Chalfield area (north Wiltshire), 1.25m high and split lengthwise, it was probably carved on all its faces; one broad face was lost when the stone was split. The carving is deep-cut and the detail well-preserved. It is likely that the unweathered stone has always been within a church on the site of the present St Peter’s.