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  ⁵⁶ The inner archivolt of the Prior’s Door at Ely has a bound vine as its pattern, but the work is far superior to that at Patrixbourne.
  ⁵⁷ Kahn writes, ‘The leaf forms at Patrixbourne are crisper and spikier than those at Rochester,’ but that both relate to France’. She cites Berzy-le-Sec near Soissons and Saint Etienne at Beauvais.
  ⁵⁸ Henry, F. and 6. Zarnecki, ‘Romanesque arches decorated with human and animal heads’, Journal of the British Archaeological Association, 20, 1957, pp. 1-47.

  ⁵⁹ There are many examples in manuscripts of which a classic example is British Library, Harley 2904, a Psalter of late tenth-century date: E. Temple, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts 900-1066 (London, 1976), ill. 141. In England, there are examples in metal work (e.g. the Alfred Jewel) and stone (e.g. Deerhurst and Old Sarum). Zarnecki writes that ‘it appears across Romanesque Europe from France to the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem’ (‘1066 and Architectural Sculpture’, p. 99, p1. 20).