It's so abstract in its simplicity that you wouldn't immediately
recognise that the shape of this stone is based on the
prow of a boat: the hole is for its mooring-rope. When
I asked for permission for the design, the vicar was in
two minds: the shape was OK, but the hole was a bit odd,
and the Purbeck stone wasn't local. But neither is the
African granite we see in every churchyard up and down
the country! Anyway, liberalism prevailed; and when the
Church Commissioners later paid a visit, they singled
out this stone and congratulated the vicar for "the pleasing
way it compliments its surroundings".
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