Sat in the undercroft of Dudley Castle sits a strange stone. The stone is undoubtedly the mutilated remains of a Tympanum that would have decorated the main entrance of the church at Dudley Priory, built around 1160.
The carved stone has suffered much damage over the years and is heavily weathered, due to this it is uncertain what it depicted, although similar stones have often showed St Michael and a dragon.
The stone has been mentioned on several occasions in various books Dudley Castle and Priory. One in 1903 by Edwin Blockslidge said that it was “lying under a pile of stone on the north-eastern side of the drive through the ruins” this is most likely to be the Priory ruins.
The stone was moved to the safety of the castle undercroft in 1994.
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