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Britain - Photo and History Pages SOUTHERN AND SOUTH WEST ENGLAND Paradoxplace BRITISH ABBEYS AND CATHEDRALS
Church of St Nicholas, Barfreston (Kent)
The Tympanum
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The little church of St Nicholas, Barfreston, lies in a tiny hamlet (with an attractive pub) just off the A2 road from Canterbury to Dover. It was thus loosely on the pilgrims roads to Canterbury and Rome. It dates from the latter 1100s and the walls are built from a mixture of locally sourced broken flint stone, and blocks of stone from Caen. It has a fine display of original (mostly) corbels, a beautiful "wagon wheel" rose window, and arguably the most interesting 1100s tympanum and voussoir sculptures in the UK.
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Queen - maybe a cousin of the lady we discovered in Abson in 2009 ?
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Mermaid - she would have been holding a mirror in one hand and a comb in the other.
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Gryphon - the only four footer around!
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Angel with scroll
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