I was puzzled when I first saw these two heads in the north wall of the nave. Now I learn that they are fragments of recumbent effigies, both 14th century. The top one is a priest, the lower is a landowner (censing angels in the two corners of his trefoil arch).
For over six hundred years those stone eyes have looked at visitors to the church. For six hundred years those ossified lips have muttered petrified prayers. For six hundred years the angelic incense has been calcified in the air.
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