A North Oxfordshire Speciality
Dec. 9th, 2019 09:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloSt Mary, Adderbury has two highly decorated pillars, one on the south side of the building, at the transition from aisle to transept and the other in a similar position to the north. The southern one has a capital showing four knights with their arms linked, so...
and the one to the north has ladies...
This style of capital is a north Oxfordshire speciality. There's a single example at Bloxham, while Hanwell has a complete set- with every column in the arcades displaying one. There may be others but, if so, I haven't come across them yet- and I don't think they occur anywhere else in the country. Presumably we're looking at the work of a single local mason or group of masons. Pity we can't put a name to them. Pity the idea didn't catch on....
and the one to the north has ladies...
This style of capital is a north Oxfordshire speciality. There's a single example at Bloxham, while Hanwell has a complete set- with every column in the arcades displaying one. There may be others but, if so, I haven't come across them yet- and I don't think they occur anywhere else in the country. Presumably we're looking at the work of a single local mason or group of masons. Pity we can't put a name to them. Pity the idea didn't catch on....
