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Painting, watercolour, Great Salkeld, Pillars, St
Cuthbert's Church, Great Salkeld, Cumberland, by William
Gershom Collingwood, 1899.
Sketch of three interlaced capitals beside a doorway; that
on right is decorated with a bird grasping a fish in its
talons above a lamb beside a calf headed serpent. Centre
capital has two intertwined snakes above a skull. Left hand
capital is honeycombed with hexagonal cells, each containing
a skull. The capitals are Norman.
Drawn to illustrate Notes on the Early Sculptured Crosses,
Shrines and Monuments in the Present Diocese of Carlisle, by
Rev William Slater Calverley, published by T Wilson, Kendal
1899; opposite p.178.
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