A HISTORY OF DERBYSHIRE TYMPANA AND LINTELS : Aibford-in-the-Water.^ Over the south doorway of the church here there is a tympanum sculptured with a representation of a tree in the centre, with a beast on each side of it. The tympanum was for many years built into the south wall of the nave outside, but during the alterations in 1869-1870 it was restored to its original position. The lintel of the chancel doorway was also sculptured with a tree surrounded by a garland. Ault Hucknall. In the west wall of the nave of the church here is a blocked-up doorway with a sculptured lintel and tympanum. On the former is represented the contest between St. George and the Dragon, 2 the two combatants being separated by a cross. St. George is armed with a sword and a kite-shaped shield. Behind him is an object shaped like a Jew's harp, the meaning of which is not clear. On the typanum to the left is a creature human down to the waist and with the body of a beast below, holding a palm branch in the right hand and a cross in the left. This has been interpreted by Mr. C. E. Keyser, F.S.A., to be St. Margaret bursting out of the body of the dragon, and by other authorities to be a centaur. On the right of the tympanum are two extraordinary beasts, the larger of the two having a cross within a circle of the tail. Bohover.* Over the south doorway of the church here there is a tympanum sculptured with a representation of the Crucifixion with the Virgin Mary and St. John on either side. Findern.i Built into the north wall of the nave of the church here, on the inside, is a tympanum sculptured with a Maltese cross in the centre on a background of chequer-work ; below this a double row of star pattern ; and on each side at the lower corners a little human figure with the arms akimbo. Hognastonf Over the south doorway of the church here there is a tympanum with incised sculpture, representing a bishop with a crozier in one hand and a book in the other ; on the right the Agnus Dei and two birds above ; and on the left three beasts, one of which appears to be a wild boar, another a fox, and the third a wolf. The bishop has a belt round his waist, and on the right side of his skirt below is a projecting object resembling a bag or purse, which is close to the nose of one of the animals. Kedleston.* Over the south doorway of the church here there is a tympanum which appears at one time to have been sculptured with a hunting scene, but the only figure that can now be made out is a man on horseback blowing a horn. Along the lower margin of the tympanum is a band of foliage ornament. NormantonJ There was formerly built into the south wall of the nave of the old church here, 8 which was pulled down in 1861, the lower part of a tympanum sculptured with a representation of the Crucifixion with the Virgin Mary and St. John. On the right was the Agnus Dei, and on the left three or four figures much defaced. At the extreme lower corners of the tympanum were two little figures, something like those at Findern and Tissington, except that here one held a horn and the other a pastoral staff. Parwich. 9 Over the west door of the new church here is a tympanum (which was removed from the old church, pulled down in 1872) sculptured with representations of the Agnus Dei with a bird perched on the head ; a stag trampling on a pair of serpents ; a wild boar ; and a beast with a floriated tail (similar to the one on the Tissington font). Swarkestone. There was formerly over the south doorway of the church here a tympanum sculptured with a representation of a tree, with a beast on each side of it, and a serpent at the bottom of it beneath the feet of the beast on the left. The lower part of the tympanum was ornamented with an arcade of nine round-headed arches. 1'imngtonP Over the south doorway of the church here there is a tympanum sculptured 1 Bateman, Vestiges ofAntij. of Derbyshire, 182; Allen, Christian Symbolism; Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc. N.S. vi. 247 ; C. E. Keyser, 'Norman Tympana and Lintels, fig. 43.
- Gent. Mag. (1799), i- 449 ; Allen, Christian Symbolism, 366 ; Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc. N.S.
vi. 250 ; Keyser, Norman Tympana, fig. 145. 3 Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc. vii. 318 ; Cox, Churches of Derbyshire, i. 100 ; Norman Tympana, fig. 92.
- Reliquary, iii. 191 ; Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc. N.S. vi. 249 ; Norman Tympana, fig. 23.
6 Allen, Christian Symbolism, 254; Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc. N.S. vi. 251; Cox, Churches of Derbyshire, ii. 491 ; Norman Tympana, fig. 75. 6 B.M. Add. MSS. 9463, f. 34 ; Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc. N.S. vi. 252. I Reliquary, ii. 5 ; Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc. N.S. vi. 252. 8 Now in south wall of tower. 9 Reliquary, xxi. 201 ; Allen, Christian SymboRsm, 254; Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc. N.S. vi. 254 ; Norman Tympana, fig. 76. 10 B.M. Add. MSS. 9463, f. 65 ; Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc. N.S. vi. 256. II Cox, Churches of Derbyshire, ii. 449 ; Norman Tympana, fig. 23. 290
