It is the earliest piece of narrative art in the country and is a unique find from Roman Britain.
[3] In the 17th century the local Lord of the Manor, Baron Stawell, intended to build a palatial mansion next to the church but it was never completed.
The original gateway was moved to Hazelgrove House (now Hazlegrove Preparatory School) in the early 19th century.
This site contains a Pleistocene sedimentary sequence of sands, silts and peats, laid down in the Early Devensian.
The site forms a rare example of deposits of 'interstadial' facies associated with a high sea level; these are of critical importance for British Pleistocene geology.