The Western Portal
The round-arched western portal is of Romanesque style. The portal has been badly damaged, (probably in the St. George's Night Uprising), and of its original design only the archivolt remains. The splayed jambs, the gable and the flat frieze lining the archivolt date from later medieval reconstruction.
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