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statue, a pre-Christian Roman religious item, assumed to be from the nearby villa complex. The church walls contain a number of Roman dressed stones and tiles amongst the medieval masonry.
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The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland
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1198:"Manor House Farmhouse (1022686)"
1121:. 20 February 1973. p. 2362.
638:Harding, P.A.; Lewis, C. (1997).
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1051:"St Giles, Tockenham, Wiltshire"
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