Given the availability of county guides past and present for Oxfordshire, it is surprising that the monumental stone sculpture which is the subject of the present article enjoys virtually no public profile at all, let alone the reputation--which it surely deserves--as an important work of the late medieval English school (Figs. 1-4). (1) In addition to its respectable, if evidently provincial, artistic qualities, the extreme rarity of its function, almost certainly the central ...