"That's what comes of putting things off, and collecting fossils, and sticking
Norman arches on one's pigsties."
In the dining room my wife uncovered the remains of a
Norman arch doorway, which would have been the entrance from the nave of the chapel into the alter room.
His legacy is all around, not least in the old
Norman arch from the former church, which the rector turned into a lychgate.
The church contains rare stone chevron carvings on the head of a
Norman arch between chancel and nave, along with the large stone font.
I have worked on a 12th century
Norman arch that, at 900 years old, was so precious.
There's a 12th century
Norman arch which was discovered during the restoration of the chapel in 1860 and re-positioned to the south side of the "Nileometer" - a huge vase thought to be 2,000 years old which once stood on the banks of the River Nile.