Charney Bassett / Cernel
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Standing permission
view of church exterior - south portal
Scene Description: Source caption: "the Norman south doorway. This is a delight, with a band of carved beast heads, each one unique, arranged around the rounded arch. Each of these beasts has leaves, or foliage flowing from its mouth; a traditional style associated with depictions of the Green Man, or wild man of the woods. The date usually ascribed to this doorway arch is 1120-1140."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Ross & Britain Express Ltd, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph by David Ross & Britain Express Ltd [https://www.britainexpress.com/counties/oxfordshire/churches/charney-bassett.htm] [accessed 21 July 2023]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - south portal - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "the Norman south doorway. This is a delight, with a band of carved beast heads, each one unique, arranged around the rounded arch. Each of these beasts has leaves, or foliage flowing from its mouth; a traditional style associated with depictions of the Green Man, or wild man of the woods. The date usually ascribed to this doorway arch is 1120-1140."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Ross & Britain Express Ltd, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph by David Ross & Britain Express Ltd [https://www.britainexpress.com/counties/oxfordshire/churches/charney-bassett.htm] [accessed 21 July 2023]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - south portal - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "the Norman south doorway. This is a delight, with a band of carved beast heads, each one unique, arranged around the rounded arch. Each of these beasts has leaves, or foliage flowing from its mouth; a traditional style associated with depictions of the Green Man, or wild man of the woods. The date usually ascribed to this doorway arch is 1120-1140."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Ross & Britain Express Ltd, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph by David Ross & Britain Express Ltd [https://www.britainexpress.com/counties/oxfordshire/churches/charney-bassett.htm] [accessed 21 July 2023]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Peter's Church in Charney Bassett"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Steve Daniels, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph 24 March 2012 by Steve Daniels [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2864329] [accessed 21 July 2023]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5
view of church interior - chancel - north side - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "And now we come to the second surviving Norman work. Or is it Norman? Is it perhaps far older? For there is a mystery at Charney Bassett, a mystery that is set above a doorway in the north wall of the chancel."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Ross & Britain Express Ltd, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph by David Ross & Britain Express Ltd [https://www.britainexpress.com/counties/oxfordshire/churches/charney-bassett.htm] [accessed 21 July 2023]
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view of church interior - chancel - north side - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "There above the chancel doorway is a carved tympanum, wonderfully incised with vivid figures. The tympanum is traditionally described as 12th-century work, but is it, or is it a remnant of centuries earlier Saxon work? The carving shows two winged beasts like dragons facing each other and flanking a figure of Christ. Around the central semi-circle is a band of what looks like acanthus leaves. In the centre of the arch is a boss, protruding from the surface of the stone like a halo above Christ's head."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Ross & Britain Express Ltd, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph by David Ross & Britain Express Ltd [https://www.britainexpress.com/counties/oxfordshire/churches/charney-bassett.htm] [accessed 21 July 2023]
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view of church interior - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Ross & Britain Express Ltd, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph by David Ross & Britain Express Ltd [https://www.britainexpress.com/counties/oxfordshire/churches/charney-bassett.htm] [accessed 21 July 2023]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Peter, Charney Bassett: font"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2022
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 26 Match 2022 by Basher Eyre [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7134290] [accessed 21 July 2023]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Ross & Britain Express Ltd, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph by David Ross & Britain Express Ltd [https://www.britainexpress.com/counties/oxfordshire/churches/charney-bassett.htm] [accessed 21 July 2023]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission