What is recorded here

Graveslab in Townparks North is a child-sized limestone fragment, forty-three centimetres long and nineteen wide, buried beside the south wall of St Patrick's church. Its chamfered edges and faint fleur-de-lis cross mark it as a thirteenth or fourteenth century burial slab, small enough that Bradley believed it covered a child. The church may have swallowed the name of the dead, but the stone still fits the shape of a young life.

From Potterton (2005, App. 13, 400, No. 8): Coffin-shaped graveslab (thirteenth-fourteenth century) The fragment of a thirteenth - fourteenth century coffin-shaped limestone graveslab has two chamfered edges and traces of a fleur-de-lis cross could be made out in 1984 (Bradley and King 1985, 166). This slab is partly buried outside the south wall of the chancel of St Patrick's church (ME036-048012-). Bradley noted that its dimensions (L: 43cm; W: 19cm; D 7cm) indicated that it was probably for a child. Date of upload: 16 February, 2015

Medieval Christian graveslab, 13th–14th century. Represents funerary practices in a Christian cemetery, likely associated with a now-lost church or settlement.

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