Beneath the west window is a Victorian carved cross let into the outside wall.
This may have formed a processional feature, the focus of outdoor services. It is possible that there was a cross in this position on the pre-1878 church, and we can find early examples of simple carved crosses.
The same type of cross in relief, carved upon a squared stone, is let into the wall above the north doorway of the nave, in the Saxon church of Stanton Lacy in Shropshire. A late 11th or very early 12th century date has been suggested, with a possibility that the feature may have survived from an earlier church. Another example at Bromyard, probably of a post-Conquest date, is set within a circular recess.
The church around 1802. a grisaille probably by Henry Jeayes
(from the Aylesford Collection, courtesy Birmingham City Archives)
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